Job Title: Principal Infrastructure Engineer: 

Location: North West England, Working from Liverpool office min of 1 day per week 

Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 DOE 

Contract type: Permanent  

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About the role 

ARO are seeking a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to join our Specialist Data Centre Services team in Liverpool. 

This is a senior technical role where you will drive the innovation, design, implementation, and improvement of large-scale compute and storage platforms serving our health sector client base.  

This is a hands-on role, combining design, implementation and 4th line support and problem resolution. It is an exciting role where you will have the freedom to lead on design and solutions.  

 What you’ll do 

Designing Cloud Infrastructure: 

• Capturing and developing client requirements, engaging internal and external assets, producing and presenting solution designs.  

Implementation Lead: 

• Working with the project team to ensure a successful implementation and client workload migration. 

Technical Escalation: 

• Provide technical point of escalation to the operations team, for complex incident and problem management. 

Ensuring Security and Compliance: 

• Delivered through proposed/implemented centralised controls. 

Collaboration and Documentation: 

• Working with the wider project and operations team to document centralised constructs, as well as any modules or other artefacts produced; creating documentation that can be understood by a variety of audiences. 

Requirements

What we are looking for? 

The successful candidate will have strong skills in the following areas. 

• Expert and demonstrable technical background in enterprise server, storage, hypervisor and operating systems. 

• A logical and collaborative approach to problem solving. 

• Exceptional communication & social skills and have a demonstrable ability to influence technical decisions in a fast-paced commercial environment.  

• Self-motivator with energy and drive for continuous improvement and a focus on delivering results. 

• Proven ability to influence technical decisions in a fast-moving commercial environment. 

• A minimum of 8 years data engineering experience 

Essential

• Expert and demonstrable technical background in enterprise server, storage, hypervisor and operating systems. 

• A logical and collaborative approach to problem solving. 

• Exceptional communication & social skills and have a demonstrable ability to influence technical decisions in a fast-paced commercial environment.  

• Self-motivator with energy and drive for continuous improvement and a focus on delivering results. 

• Proven ability to influence technical decisions in a fast-moving commercial environment. 

• 5 years + experience in a Senior Infrastructure support / engineer role.  

• Dell Power Edge Servers, PowerVault, PowerStore, PowerScale and PowerMAX 

• Supplier background, MSP 

• Windows Server OS, Linux and Unix OS, VMware ESXi, and Active Directory  

• Knowledge of cloud security best practices, identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and data protection. 

Desirable  

• IBM FlashSystem and QNAP desirable. 

• Experience implementing security controls, compliance standards, and security monitoring in cloud environments. 

• Understanding of regulatory compliance requirements, DSPT desirable. 

• Experience in an industry framework (ITIL, ISO 20000 / 27001 etc.) 

• Full UK Driving license  

Benefits

Who are we?

ARO has 25 years’ experience in Collaboration, Connectivity, Cloud and Infrastructure and Cyber Security services both in the UK and Internationally and has a nationwide presence with offices across the UK.

As one of the UK’s leading independent IT and communication experts our mission is to deliver a seamless technology experience to all end users. To make that vision a reality, we need bright, tenacious and inspiring talent to help drive our performance, growth and achieve this mission.

To make us successful we focus on strong communication, a culture based on fun, trust and collaboration. We have created a modern workplace environment, which is full of engaged, energetic, positive and curious people whose productivity, resilience and wellbeing allow them to thrive.

In 2021 we were awarded the People Insight’s Outstanding Workplace Award, which celebrates organisations building positive workplace cultures and acting on employee feedback to spark positive change.

Why Work for ARO?

At ARO we are committed to creating an excellent employee experience. Our employees, culture and additional benefits all make ARO a great place to work. Come join us!

We offer a wide range of benefits and incentives to our employees including:

• ‘Design Your Life’ training and development programme
• Flexible working
• Company Pension Scheme and matching contributions
• Company Perks portal
• Private Medical insurance
• Life assurance
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus holiday trading
• Your Birthday off, on us!
• Health Club and Wellbeing Scheme
• ARO Shares after 12 months employment
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Technical Training Academy and E-learning

If even 80% of this matches your experience and attributes, we would be delighted to hear from you.