Infrastructure & Network Engineer 6 months Contract Up to 475 per day

Infrastructure & Network Engineer - Up to 475 per day (Inside IR35)

Fully Remote in the UK

6 months initial contract

Our client are looking to implement operate and support secure scalable cloud infrastructure and network services across Azure and hybrid environments. Youll keep critical services fast resilient and cost-efficient delivering engineering work to high standards of reliability and security.

Perfect for a hands-on (3rd line) engineer who loves cloud automation networking and raising the security bar.

What youll do

• Deploy and support Azure and on-premise infrastructure including hybrid/multi-cloud integrations.

• Lead cloud migration activities in line with approved designs and change controls.

• Build IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines for automated reliable deployments.

• Deliver secure scalable network infrastructure across cloud and on-prem.

• Administer and support Microsoft 365 services.

• Monitor troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure network and service issues to agreed SLAs.

• Own patching hardening secure configuration and vulnerability remediation.

• Investigate security alerts and support incident response recovery and root cause analysis.

• Mentor colleagues and drive continuous improvement.

What youll bring

Essential

• Proven experience as an Infrastructure/Network Engineer in enterprise environments.

• Strong Azure skills: compute networking (VNet NSGs Load Balancer ExpressRoute Gateways) and hybrid/on-prem.

• Azure DevOps / CI/CD Terraform (IaC) and scripting (PowerShell Bash Python).

• Solid networking fundamentals (LAN WAN VPN DNS DHCP).

• Active Directory M365 (Intune) Azure AD and ITIL-aligned service management.

• Experience with incident response SLAs patching hardening and vulnerability management.

• Experience of VMWare/Hyper-V

• Awareness of ISO 27001 GDPR NIS2 CIS.

• Excellent English communication and a collaborative mentoring style.

Nice to have

• Fortinet (FortiGate SD-WAN Firewalls FortiManager).

• Azure Well-Architected Framework; on-prem Azure migration experience.

• Experience supporting ISO 27001 certified environments.

Certifications (preferred not essential)

• Azure Administrator Microsoft Admin-level certs ITIL Foundation Fortinet NSE