Senior Infrastructure Engineer

We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people‑centric and here to power good. Every day, we future‑prove urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next.

We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Working Pattern: 5 days per week onsite, plus overtime and out‑of‑hours support as required by operational demand.

Job Description
Hitachi Digital Services is seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead the optimisation, maintenance, and reliability of core IT infrastructure at the Nissan Sunderland plant. In this role, the successful candidate will serve as the primary technical escalation point for complex system and network issues, ensuring high availability across a fast‑paced manufacturing environment.
The ideal candidate will bring a strong blend of virtualisation expertise, enterprise monitoring management, and Cisco networking knowledge, along with experience supporting critical production environments.

• Manage, optimise, and maintain virtualised environments and server infrastructure to ensure maximum uptime for production operations.
• Act as the Tier 3 escalation point for critical infrastructure issues, including complex Hyper‑V diagnostics, failover clustering, and storage performance tuning.
• Support advanced routing, switching, networking, and security troubleshooting activities.
• Manage network segmentation requirements, including VLAN configuration changes across core and access switching infrastructure.
• Assist with the configuration, monitoring, and administration of Cisco firewalls and Cisco wireless environments.
• Own and develop the enterprise monitoring platform using Solar Winds, including alerting, dashboards, and reporting.
• Provide onsite production support and participate in planned maintenance activities outside normal working hours.

• Expert‑level Microsoft Hyper‑V administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience with failover clustering and virtual switch configuration.
• Strong Cisco networking experience, including routing, switching, firewalls, and wireless technologies.
• Hands‑on administration of Solar Winds (NPM, SAM).
• Minimum 5 years' experience in an enterprise infrastructure, network, or systems engineering role.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, shopfloor, or managed services environments is highly desirable.

• Full‑time onsite presence at Nissan Sunderland (5 days per week).
• Flexibility to support overtime and operational requirements as needed.
• Willingness to participate in an on‑call support rota is essential.
• Ability to provide out‑of‑hours support for critical incidents and planned maintenance activities.

We’re a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co‑create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organisations into data‑driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

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