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Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer - Contract

Job Posted: 5 hours ago

Salary: £ 600 - 650 / Day
Job Type: Contract
Location: Motherwell, North Lanarkshire

Expire in: a month

Job Description

Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer - 6 Month Contract - Up to £650 per day - Inside IR35

Motherwell, with travel across Central Belt sites | 6 Months (view to extend)

We're recruiting a hands-on Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer to join a major M&A integration programme, taking legacy IT infrastructure and bringing it into a stable, standardised environment.

This is a genuinely hands on, onsite role - not a remote or hybrid architecture position. You'll be in server rooms and comms rooms day-to-day: racking and cabling hardware, physically relocating equipment between sites, migrating NAS storage and reconfiguring networking as legacy systems are brought across - all while mentoring an early career in-house team through to handover.

What you'll be doing:

Assessing legacy infrastructure and delivering pragmatic, low-risk migration plans
Physically relocating equipment between sites - racking, unracking, structured cabling and rack configuration
Commissioning new server rooms, including rack population and cable management
Managing Dell server hardware, Windows Server, and virtualisation (Hyper-V/VMware)
Executing QNAP NAS storage migrations
Owning backup and restore using Veeam Backup & Replication, including active support during migrations
Configuring and troubleshooting Cisco Meraki networking (MX/MS/MR) - firewalls, VLANs, segmentation
Leading SaaS and tenancy repointing as services move from legacy to new tenants, including identity platform work (AD/Entra ID)
Acting as a senior escalation point, working closely with project managers, security teams and vendors
Mentoring junior IT team members ahead of contract handoverWhat we're looking for - this is a hands-on delivery role, so we need direct, demonstrable experience with:

Dell server hardware
Veeam Backup & Replication specifically (not just backup/DR concepts on other platforms)
QNAP NAS storage, including migrations
Cisco Meraki (MX/MS/MR) deployment and configuration
Structured cabling and rack configuration - genuine physical build/relocation experience, not just server administration
Hands-on involvement in an M&A, infrastructure integration, or large-scale transformation programme
SaaS/tenant repointing during a merger, acquisition or platform migrationAlongside this, you'll need:

Senior level infrastructure experience in a mid-to-large, established organisation with complex, bespoke legacy environments
Experience in a regulated sector (financial services, healthcare, life sciences, defence)
Full UK driving licence
Commutable to Motherwell- this is a 5 day a week, fully onsite roleThis role requires an engineer who can hit the ground running from day one, with strong, current, hands-on experience across the full technology list above - not partial coverage or adjacent/equivalent tools. Two areas in particular are non-negotiable:

Genuine hands-on Cisco Meraki (MX/MS/MR) deployment experience - configuring, troubleshooting and managing Meraki estates directly, not just general networking exposure
Direct, hands-on experience delivering infrastructure integration as part of an actual M&A programme - not general migration, transformation or consolidation work in isolationPlease note: this role requires direct, hands-on experience with the specific tools and activities listed above. General infrastructure, virtualisation or cloud architecture experience alone - without the named platforms and genuine M&A integration background - will not meet the client's requirements for this contract.

Apply now with a CV that clearly evidences your experience against the above, or get in touch for a confidential conversation about the role

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