About the role

We are looking for a skilled Infrastructure & Cloud Security Specialist to join our SOC/NOC team, responsible for ensuring the security, stability, and availability of IT infrastructures across multiple clients. This role focuses on monitoring, maintaining, and enhancing the security posture of both on-premises and Azure cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• To liaise and collaborate with other members of the Infrastructure Team to ensure that agreed key deliverables are met
• Deep technical experience in infrastructure design, build and deployment, including private and public cloud, networking, connectivity, storage, virtualization and identity
• Build of hybrid environments to span existing customer networks and Azure
• Managing and maintaining client Azure environments
• Experience building and deploying resilient Azure cloud environments
• Experience of migration and modernization of workloads from customers' on-premise data centres to Azure
• Experience building and deploying Azure resources using IaC
• Experience with the Azure CLI, PowerShell/Azure PowerShell and the Azure Portal
• Experience working with or using Azure technologies such as virtual machines, blob, queues, tables, Cloud Services, web apps, Azure Active Directory, Virtual Networks etc.
• Experience in maintaining, troubleshooting and supporting Windows server operating systems and server hardware in multi-site environments
• Assist in producing and maintaining appropriate documentation, ensuring that procedures are documented in an efficient and timely manner, and that suitable version control is employed for all Infrastructure systems
• Provide service assurance on configuration work, making sure all changes submitted are logged appropriately in line with the overall IT process for Change Management
• Proactively monitor and update incidents or requests assigned to the Infrastructure Team queue including your own
• Understand our disaster recovery procedures ensuring they are checked and in place, regularly assessed and kept up to date with newly introduced or modified infrastructure/systems
• Assist with the delivery of projects contained within the IT Strategy as directed
• Engaging with third parties if needed and work with them towards the resolution of an incident
• Facilitate proactive remediation of new vulnerabilities by collaboration with cyber security, and endpoint teams
• Create documentation and operating procedures to expand the current knowledgebase

Requirements

• Excellent organisational skills
• Strong communicator both written and spoken
• Experience working with Azure cloud and on-premises
• Strong IT background and knowledge of infrastructure, cloud and application stacks
• Project Drive - The ability to think for yourself, understand a given problem and build that into measurable deliverables that you can demonstrate progress against given objectives
• Good understanding of ITIL practices
• Comfortable working autonomously to deliver value
• Security or technical certifications will be an advantage
• Experience coordinating small work packages, changes or projects in the infrastructure and applications areas
• At least 3 years experience in Enterprise IT with exposure to security andinfrastructure
• Comfortable with scripting languages (Powershell, Python etc.)
• Experience with patch management