Principal Technical and Infrastructure Specialist

Are you a technical leader who thrives on transforming complex environments into modern, resilient digital platforms? We're looking for a Principal Technical & Infrastructure Specialist to take ownership of our core infrastructure estate and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our Digital & Data services. This is an opportunity to operate at the heart of the organisation's technology strategy, leading innovation across hyperconverged infrastructure, cloud services, storage, compute, and data resilience.

In this senior, hands‑on role, you'll be the go‑to expert for all things infrastructure, guiding architectural direction, driving best practice, and modernising legacy systems into scalable, secure, and high‑performing solutions. You'll collaborate with architects, cyber security specialists, and business leaders while mentoring colleagues and influencing enterprise‑wide change. If you enjoy solving highly complex technical challenges, making impactful decisions, and building future‑ready digital ecosystems, this role offers both autonomy and strategic visibility in equal measure.

Please note that this is a 12 month fixed term contract.

• Manage the delivery of the hyperconverged storage, compute, virtual, backup and restore infrastructure environments
• (Administration, configuration, development of on prem and cloud environments)
• Responsible for the delivery of multiple significant, highly complex support issues and projects.
• To develop the hyperconverged storage, compute, virtual, backup and restore environments in line with the Digital and Data Strategy
• Identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and opportunities for the hyperconverged and infrastructure services.
• Working with Cyber Security and the Data Protection Officer to ensure required standards, implementing solutions and monitoring tools.
• Responsible for researching, identifying, and implementing solutions based on business need, following best practice and IT standards.
• Work with new and emerging cloud technologies to provide a modern, scalable architecture.
• Set best practice and policies within the infrastructure provision across D&D and the wider business.
• Instil a culture of automation across all Cloud and On‑Prem workloads, recommending improvements and working with business teams.
• Work closely with the D&D department and wider business/partners to ensure capture of data in a scalable environment and develop architecture.

• Demonstrable experience within Nutanix and VMWare hyperconverged and infrastructure environments, including but not limited to Cloud and on prem virtual storage and server environments, Latest Server OS features and backup and restore technologies.
• Demonstrable experience administering, configuring, and designing a multisite and hybrid cloud enterprise hyperconverged environment.
• A good understanding of hyperconverged, storage and backup infrastructure roadmaps and the ability to evaluate the applicability for business productivity solutions in accordance with the Digital and Data strategy.
• Experience of deploying hybrid cloud virtual compute and backup infrastructure solutions, such as Multi site hyperconverged infrastructure and cloud backup and restore technologies.
• Experience of undertaking appropriate impact assessment of the relevant hyperconverged, virtualization and backup environment infrastructure updates.
• Experience with integrations and migration paths from on‑prem solutions to cloud solutions.
• Experience of analyzing highly complex technical issues and proposed solutions.
• Experience in the design of virtualization, storage, backup and restore infrastructure environments.
• Strong technical and governance documentation skills.
• Strong storage and backup / restore process knowledge.
• Strong attention to detail and excellent customer service ethos.
• Extensive knowledge of supporting Nutanix, VMWare, Hypervisors, Windows server operating systems and Azure virtual storage and compute.
• Ability to work autonomously and as a team player.
• Knowledge and experience of working across all technologies within backup and restore, hyperconverged and compute environments, ensuring best use of…