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Job Title: Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Warrington (office-based / hybrid options may be available)

Salary: £up to 60k, depending on experience

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing team in Warrington. This role will focus on designing, implementing, and supporting secure and scalable cloud solutions across our business.

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Umbrella Engagement - Attendance on site as and when needed but likely to be on site 1-2 days /week at start - 6 months

Must be strong technically and have strong knowledge of Modern Technologies - especially AWS - Must have outstanding people management skills and have significant experience as an Operational Manager and have held roles such as Head of Technology or Infrastructure Manager.

The idea.

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational change within our clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals. 

We have an opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic candidate to join our technically focused solutions engineering team as an Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. This role offers the opportunity to work on a interesting and challenging projects involving a range of industry leading technology stacks. The role takes place primarily during UK core business hours with participation in an on-call escalation engineering Rota required.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing and deploying a range of modern infrastructure solutions across data and cloud preferably within regulated environments (finance, energy, public sector)
• Experience working within a project team, with personal responsibility for specific technical deliverables
• Experience providing high quality design documentation (high level design / low level design / as built design / operational manuals)
• (candidates should be able to evidence their experience across a mix of at least 50% of the following technical skills to be considered)

Technical skills:

• Windows and/or Linux server environment build and administration
• Enterprise virtualization technologies such as Nutanix, VMware, and/or Hyper-V
• Design and/or implementing of public cloud infrastructure services on Azure and/or AWS
• Active Directory & Entra ID identity services deployment and administration
• Microsoft 365 Intune for endpoint management deployment and administration
• Microsoft 365 productivity services deployment (Exchange Online / SharePoint Online / Teams etc.)
• Knowledge of relevant governance standards and frameworks (Azure Well Architected Framework, NCSC Cyber Essentials, CIS Security Benchmarks etc)
• Virtual Desktop solutions (Cloud or on-premise) Other skills
• Excellent technical problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders as required
• Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams to deliver large or complex multidisciplinary projects Ability to write clear and concise technical documentation as part of project delivery
• All candidates should be confident in their ability to pass general security vetting procedures such as disclosure checking and a criminal history search Professional Certification
• Relevant certifications such as Azure Administrator / Architect, AWS Solutions Administrator/Architect, Microsoft Certified Professional, Nutanix Certified Administrator or similar industry recognized accreditations related to the role would be a definite plus

Benefits

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.

We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life.  In addition to a Competitive Salary , here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package:

Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.

Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance.  We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can.

A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more….

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement.  If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience.  We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.

Are you an AWS Cloud infrastructure professional with a solid background in both AWS Cloud and Server Infrastructure (Windows)? 

Are you interested in solidifying your skills in the above areas and joining a team who have recently migrated to AWS? 

Do you have the experience to assist StepChange in the transformation to AWS and all that comes with it? From tech, to process, to modernisation?  

We are undertaking multiple large technology transformation projects across our business to revolutionize the way we offer our services, moving from on-premises towards cloud-based solutions. 

This newly created position will be integral to enhancing our technical infrastructure and ensuring best-in-class security. 

You will work cross-functionally and collaborate with senior stakeholders across the business while working closely with Technology Services colleagues to implement procedural and technical aspects of Security Operations, including liaison and engagement with the MSSP/SOC. 

What will you be doing? 

In this role, you will play a key role in implementing, optimizing, and maintaining the cloud infrastructure (AWS), ensuring robust performance, high availability, and comprehensive support. 

You will also lead on the maintenance of the charity's legacy environments (Windows Server)

This role is ideal for someone driven by the ever-changing world of technology and has a passion for researching and understanding new technologies which may contribute to improved, and cost-effective service provision. 

We are looking for people with: 

• Legacy Environment Support (Essential):
• Providing operational support and maintenance for our Windows Server estate.

• Troubleshooting, patching, and managing upgrades to ensure system stability and security
• Supporting the transition of legacy workloads into modern cloud-native solutions where appropriate
  • Compute & Infrastructure (Essential):
• Deploying, configuring, and optimising workloads using EC2 and related services
• Building and managing resilient and highly available infrastructure across multiple AWS regions and availability zones
• Storage (Essential):
  • Implementing and supporting storage solutions within AWS.
  • Designing data lifecycle policies and ensuring efficient, cost-effective storage usage
• Networking & Content Delivery (Essential):
  • Configuring and maintaining VPCs, subnets, route tables, Transit Gateways, and VPNs
  • Leveraging CloudFront, Route 53, and API Gateway for secure and scalable content delivery
• Security & Identity (Essential):
  • Applying best practice security principles using IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, and AWS Organisations
  • Working with the Cyber Security team to embed compliance, monitoring, and governance controls
• Automation & Orchestration (Essential):
  • Building Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
  • Designing CI/CD pipelines for repeatable, automated deployments
  • Driving operational excellence with monitoring, logging, and observability tools such as CloudWatch and AWS Config.
• Monitoring (Desirable) - Grafana
• Strong troubleshooting skills and diagnostic abilities for BAU escalations
• An aptitude for Security and a keen eye for detail.
• Ideally but not mandatory - Load Balancing, IP Telephony and contact centre services and containerisation

• AWS (Strong Experience):

• Experience/understanding of FCA rules and regulations along with ITIL experience is preferential but not essential. 
• You will have a proven track record in cloud infrastructure with a sound understanding of security (anti-virus, firewalls, access control, etc.)

Your Benefits 

If flexible working is important to you, then look no further! At StepChange, we are proud of our culture and our commitment to flexible working. This role is based in our Leeds city centre office (currently working 2 days a month in the office and the rest from home). 

You will also get an excellent benefits package including: 

• 27 days annual leave (this increases by one day per year up to a maximum of 5 additional days plus bank holidays) 
• The opportunity to buy and sell annual leave 
• Hybrid working – with IT equipment provided when you’re working from home 
• Group pension scheme 
• Group Company Life Assurance 
• Westfield Health cash plan with employee discounts in high street shops 
• Vitality at Work health and wellbeing 

Role: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary: Up to 60,000 depending on experience
Location: Hybrid - Remote with occasional Reading HQ visits (1-2 days/month)
Hours: Full-time, Monday-Friday (7.25 hrs/day)

We're seeking a highly skilled Infrastructure Engineer to join a busy, growing IT team responsible for keeping mission-critical systems running across multiple UK sites. This role blends hands-on technical work with involvement in major upcoming projects-cloud migrations, office moves, and infrastructure upgrades-within a "cloud-first" strategy. You'll work across Azure, Microsoft 365, networking, and on-prem virtualisation, collaborating with experienced 2nd & 3rd line engineers and security specialists.

Key responsibilities

* Manage and support servers (Hyper-V virtual and physical), ensuring proactive monitoring, patching, and maintenance
* Design, manage, and monitor Azure environments and resources
* Support Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Teams, Power Automate, Power BI, Intune, and MFA
* Administer SQL databases and IIS-based applications hosted in Azure
* Oversee backup, DRaaS, and BaaS solutions (Zerto, Commvault), perform DR tests and restore checks
* Maintain networking (SD-WAN, switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, VPNs)
* Handle certificate management (SSL), DNS, DHCP, and authentication (ADFS, SAML, WAP)
* Keep CMDB and capacity planning records up to date
* Collaborate on security monitoring and compliance activities, including audit support
* Write and maintain PowerShell/Terraform scripts to automate tasks

What you'll bring

* Strong Microsoft Windows Server, Azure, and O365 administration experience
* Proven SQL database and Hyper-V virtualisation skills
* Networking knowledge across firewalls, routing, and VPN technologies
* Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and work independently under pressure
* A collaborative mindset, strong communication skills, and reliability in delivering results

Desirable experience

* IT certifications (Azure, MCP/MCSA/MCSE, CCNA)
* SAN administration (Compellent, NAS/iSCSI), Hyper-V clusters, Microsoft Failover clustering
* Backup management, monitoring systems (PRTG), build image maintenance, and infrastructure decommissioning
* PowerShell scripting for automation and infrastructure management
* ITIL foundation knowledge

Why this role?

* Competitive salary + discretionary bonus
* 25 days holiday + pension + life assurance
* Flexible benefits scheme covering health, wellbeing, and lifestyle perks
* Hybrid working with minimal office travel

Exposure to a wide range of tech and large-scale infrastructure projects in a fast-paced environment

Ready to lead and still stay hands-on? We’re looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead to take charge of our AWS platform, drive automation-first practices, and shape how we deploy, scale, and secure our systems. You will lead a small, capable team, work closely with product squads, and elevate our DevOps game with powerful CI/CD pipelines and generative AI tools for IaC.

Role: Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead, AWS Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Cloud Engineer, Lead AWS Engineer, Cloud Architect, Lead Cloud Engineer etc

Benefits: 5% pension, 25 days holiday, 2 wellbeing days, Christmas shutdown, private healthcare, life assurance, cinema tickets & more

You’ll bring deep AWS knowledge, IaC expertise with Terraform and Ansible, and a proven track record leading high-impact cloud projects. You’ll understand cloud security and governance inside-out, thrive on performance tuning, and be a confident communicator with solid stakeholder skills. Familiarity with GitHub, WAFs, monitoring tools, and serverless tech like AWS Lambda is key. Bonus points for experience with Windows/Linux servers or AI-enhanced IaC.

Own your next big move — click apply and lead the cloud your way.

Ready to lead and still stay hands-on? We’re looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead to take charge of our AWS platform, drive automation-first practices, and shape how we deploy, scale, and secure our systems. You will lead a small, capable team, work closely with product squads, and elevate our DevOps game with powerful CI/CD pipelines and generative AI tools for IaC.

Role: Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead, AWS Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Cloud Engineer, Lead AWS Engineer, Cloud Architect, Lead Cloud Engineer etc

Benefits: 5% pension, 25 days holiday, 2 wellbeing days, Christmas shutdown, private healthcare, life assurance, cinema tickets & more

You’ll bring deep AWS knowledge, IaC expertise with Terraform and Ansible, and a proven track record leading high-impact cloud projects. You’ll understand cloud security and governance inside-out, thrive on performance tuning, and be a confident communicator with solid stakeholder skills. Familiarity with GitHub, WAFs, monitoring tools, and serverless tech like AWS Lambda is key. Bonus points for experience with Windows/Linux servers or AI-enhanced IaC.

Own your next big move — click apply and lead the cloud your way.

Role: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary: Up to 60,000 depending on experience
Location: Hybrid - Remote with occasional Reading HQ visits (1-2 days/month)
Hours: Full-time, Monday-Friday (7.25 hrs/day)

We're seeking a highly skilled Infrastructure Engineer to join a busy, growing IT team responsible for keeping mission-critical systems running across multiple UK sites. This role blends hands-on technical work with involvement in major upcoming projects-cloud migrations, office moves, and infrastructure upgrades-within a "cloud-first" strategy. You'll work across Azure, Microsoft 365, networking, and on-prem virtualisation, collaborating with experienced 2nd & 3rd line engineers and security specialists.

Key responsibilities

* Manage and support servers (Hyper-V virtual and physical), ensuring proactive monitoring, patching, and maintenance
* Design, manage, and monitor Azure environments and resources
* Support Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Teams, Power Automate, Power BI, Intune, and MFA
* Administer SQL databases and IIS-based applications hosted in Azure
* Oversee backup, DRaaS, and BaaS solutions (Zerto, Commvault), perform DR tests and restore checks
* Maintain networking (SD-WAN, switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, VPNs)
* Handle certificate management (SSL), DNS, DHCP, and authentication (ADFS, SAML, WAP)
* Keep CMDB and capacity planning records up to date
* Collaborate on security monitoring and compliance activities, including audit support
* Write and maintain PowerShell/Terraform scripts to automate tasks

What you'll bring

* Strong Microsoft Windows Server, Azure, and O365 administration experience
* Proven SQL database and Hyper-V virtualisation skills
* Networking knowledge across firewalls, routing, and VPN technologies
* Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and work independently under pressure
* A collaborative mindset, strong communication skills, and reliability in delivering results

Desirable experience

* IT certifications (Azure, MCP/MCSA/MCSE, CCNA)
* SAN administration (Compellent, NAS/iSCSI), Hyper-V clusters, Microsoft Failover clustering
* Backup management, monitoring systems (PRTG), build image maintenance, and infrastructure decommissioning
* PowerShell scripting for automation and infrastructure management
* ITIL foundation knowledge

Why this role?

* Competitive salary + discretionary bonus
* 25 days holiday + pension + life assurance
* Flexible benefits scheme covering health, wellbeing, and lifestyle perks
* Hybrid working with minimal office travel

Exposure to a wide range of tech and large-scale infrastructure projects in a fast-paced environment

• Design, build, and manage cloud infrastructure on platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment processes.
• Develop and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions for optimization.
• Ensure the security, reliability, and scalability of cloud environments.
• Implement and manage containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Develop and maintain scripting for automation tasks (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to troubleshoot issues and implement enhancements.
• Define and implement robust disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Manage logging, monitoring, and alerting systems for proactive issue detection.
• Stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies in DevOps and cloud computing.
• Participate in on-call rotations to support production environments.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps or System Engineering role.
• Proven experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI).
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Familiarity with operating systems (Linux/Unix administration).
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
• Experience with network configuration and security best practices.