Infrastructure Analyst

Job role:

Infrastructure Analyst

Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:00 (35 hours per week)

Happy to talk flexible working

Hill Dickinson are proud to be named as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families 2025 for the second year running and so, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.

IT
- Infrastructure

Liverpool or Manchester

Hill Dickinson have embarked on an ambitious consolidation and upgrade roadmap, that will see most services aligned with the IT and Business Strategy. As a result, you will be working with some of the latest technologies on the market and given the opportunity to manage and own the technical delivery of our projects. Where possible, training will also be provided on new and emerging technologies to allow you to support them in full.

The successful candidate will report to the Service Delivery Manager/ Applications Support Team Lead and form part of our technical infrastructure team, who pride themselves in the successful delivery of infrastructure and application-based projects.

Our team are currently working with some of the latest technologies in the market, including a Software Defined WAN, Software Defined Data centre, and migration of core applications to SAAS and IAAS platforms where suitable. You can guarantee no two days will be the same and the workload is varied.

We pride ourselves in the work we deliver, and the team are friendly and dynamic, always willing to help others in understanding the systems and roadmap we have. With the broadening technology stack, we appreciate that expertise in all technologies isn’t possible, but the role requires an enthusiastic and motivated professional who can develop and lead on any emerging work streams.

As well as being a member of our Infrastructure team, you will also closely align with our enterprise architect, project management office and service desk teams.

• Work closely with the Service Delivery Manager, Service Delivery Manager/ Applications Support to develop and maintain the Operational Infrastructure / IT Systems Hill Dickinson offer across their UK and International Offices.
• To support and contribute to the organisation’s corporate goals and business objectives.
• Support Project Managers giving technical guidance to enable the smooth implementation of Services and Products into the Hill Dickinson Architecture through the Project lifecycle RFP through to BAU Support.
• Act as a point of escalation to Infrastructure Analysts and support them in identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving complex issues.
• Embrace change defined by the Hill Dickinson IT Project Roadmap.
• Support the IT departmental policies for the organisation which includes all service delivery matters, technological matters, hardware, and software procurement & IT services sourcing.
• Work in a collaborative way with all IT teams to support the implementation of the IT vision and strategy.
• Proactively contribute to knowledge transfer to the Infrastructure Analysts and IT Service Desk to move repetitive and well documented tasks to this team.
• Create and maintain systems design and configuration documentation, including creating and maintaining test plans and recovery methods of all systems.

• A strong understanding of VMware management and maintenance.
• A strong understanding of Microsoft Azure including Entra and application configuration.
• A strong understanding of Microsoft Server technologies and associated services, including Server 2016, 2019 and 2022.
• A good level of networking knowledge, from a troubleshooting and routing perspective. Basic switch configuration knowledge would be desirable.
• An understanding of…