Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Linux & Cloud Automation)

Salary: £50,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud operations, or managed services
• Strong Linux administration skills across RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, and/or Oracle Linux
• Hands-on Ansible experience for patching, automation, and configuration management
• Good Microsoft Azure administration skills, including VMs, networking, backup, and governance
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Bicep and/or ARM templates
• Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipeline experience
• Scripting and automation experience using Bash and/or PowerShell
• Strong troubleshooting, incident management, and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities:

• Own the Linux patching lifecycle across enterprise environments using Ansible
• Manage Azure Linux VMs, Update Manager, Backup, and cloud infrastructure services
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code deployments using Bicep and ARM templates
• Build and support Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation
• Manage Azure Key Vault, secrets, and certificate lifecycle processes
• Implement infrastructure changes and contribute to CAB processes
• Resolve technical escalations and support major incident response
• Participate in a shared on-call rota

Technologies:

• ARM
• Ansible
• Azure
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Incident Management
• Support
• Linux
• Oracle
• PowerShell
• RHEL
• Ubuntu

More:

We are a leading technology services organisation based in Manchester with a hybrid working model. We offer a competitive salary plus on-call allowance and flexible remote/hybrid working. You will join a highly skilled technical team with strong career progression opportunities, working on cloud transformation and continuous improvement projects across large-scale Azure and hybrid cloud environments. This is a hands-on role focused on Linux administration, cloud operations, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code, with exposure to modern cloud, automation, and DevOps technologies.

last updated 40 week of 2026