Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Cognizant

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Derby, Derbyshire, United KingdomBlantyre, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

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TL;DR · Senior Infrastructure Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior Infrastructure Engineer As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the Global IT organisation, you will design, support, and improve critical infrastructure services underpinning global operations. You will manage highly available server and virtualisation environments across global data centres and local sites, ensuring they remain resilient, scalable, and secure. Your daily responsibilities include overseeing infrastructure installations, upgrades, patching, and maintenance while leading major projects like technology refreshes and site migrations. You will act as a technical escalation point for root-cause analysis and maintain accurate technical documentation. Required skills include experience with Nutanix, Microsoft Hyper-V, Rocky Linux, Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, Ansible, Python, BIND DNS, and ISC Kea DHCP. You will solve complex problems regarding infrastructure resilience, scalability, and business continuity for the enterprise.

What you'll do

  • Design, support, and maintain highly available server and virtualization environments across global data centers and local sites.
  • Execute infrastructure installation, upgrades, patching, and maintenance to ensure reliable system operation and service levels.
  • Lead major infrastructure projects including technology refreshes, site migrations, and infrastructure consolidation initiatives.
  • Perform root-cause analysis and provide technical guidance as an escalation point for server, infrastructure, and networking technologies.
  • Modernize technology architecture to improve scalability, security, business continuity, and operational resilience.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, including rack diagrams, system records, and infrastructure inventories.
  • Manage third-party suppliers and delivery partners to ensure they meet agreed outcomes and timescales.
  • Monitor technology developments and present recommendations to senior leadership regarding business suitability.

What we're looking for

  • At least five years of experience managing infrastructure within a large-scale enterprise.
  • Strong experience designing and supporting server infrastructure, including Nutanix and Microsoft Hyper-V.
  • Practical experience configuring, supporting and maintaining Rocky Linux and Windows Server environments.
  • Strong working knowledge of Active Directory and Group Policy.
  • Experience using Ansible for configuration management and orchestration.
  • Python scripting capability.
  • Experience supporting BIND DNS and ISC Kea DHCP.
  • Eligibility to meet the requirements for UK Security Clearance.
  • Experience supporting enterprise backup solutions, particularly Dell PowerProtect Data Manager (preferred).
  • ITIL Foundation-level knowledge, certification or equivalent practical experience (preferred).
  • Experience leading significant infrastructure refresh, migration or consolidation programmes (preferred).
  • A strong understanding of infrastructure resilience, scalability, business continuity and security (preferred).
  • Experience managing technology suppliers and ensuring delivery against service levels and key milestones (preferred).

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