Infrastructure Operations Engineer – Poweshell/ Windows

Overview

In this role you will lead the automation of Windows infrastructure and the delivery pipeline within a fintech environment. You will act as the technical authority for IT infrastructure, shaping scalable, secure, and highly available platforms across on‑premises and cloud locations. You will build a new DevOps function, collaborating with operations, developers, and stakeholders to automate OS builds, provisioning, and upgrades. This offers hands-on scope to influence infrastructure design and drive rapid, merit‑based career progression.

Pay / Benefits

• salary + benefits
• merit-based progression
• opportunity to work with blue-chip financial services clients
• modern infrastructure on AWS
• open, collaborative culture

Responsibilities

• Operate, design, implement, document and manage computing, network and storage infrastructure for security, performance and availability
• Act as Technical Authority for all Infrastructure services
• Design, deliver, automate, operate and manage platform servers (physical and virtual)
• Design, deliver, automate, operate and manage platform storage systems and capacity planning
• Develop operating system build processes
• Design, implement and operate end-to-end platform monitoring systems

Key requirements

• 5 years experience with Windows systems, support and automation
• Excellent PowerShell scripting
• Knowledge of Windows DSC
• Strong technical leadership experience
• Understanding of how tasks should be automated
• Documentation creation and management
• Virtualisation including Hyper-V and SCVMM
• Microsoft platforms including Windows Server 2008R2/2012R2, IIS 7/8
• Good understanding of TCP/IP and the OSI stack
• Active Directory
• Enterprise server estates including blade systems and high-density servers
• Enterprise networking including Cisco
• Office 365, AWS or Azure
• Cloud platforms (IaaS/PaaS)
• Version/source control systems
• Some Linux knowledge
• Experience with at least one configuration management system (SCCM, Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
• Hyper-V

• Technical leadership
• Communication
• Documentation
• PowerShell
• Windows Server/DSC
• Hyper-V/SCVMM

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