Infrastructure Engineer

Join us at EIT: At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture Climate Change & Managing CO₂ Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org . Your Role: EIT are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement and support secure, reliable and scalable IT infrastructure across on-premises, hybrid-cloud and cloud environments. Working closely with Network Infrastructure, Cyber Security and Software Engineering teams, you will maintain core server, storage, virtualisation, backup and cloud services supporting enterprise applications, scientific research and AI workloads. Your Responsibilities: Design, implement and maintain server, storage, virtualisation and cloud infrastructure. Administer Windows Server, Linux and Microsoft Azure services, including identity and access-management components. Manage VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter environments. Support core infrastructure services including DNS, DHCP, backup, disaster recovery and monitoring. Manage server patching, upgrades, lifecycle replacement and capacity planning. Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure incidents, problems and service requests. Maintain secure infrastructure configurations in line with cyber-security and audit requirements. Support hybrid-cloud connectivity and integration with OCI, Azure and other cloud services where required. Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks and operational procedures. Identify and deliver infrastructure automation, resilience and service-improvement opportunities. Requirements Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience: Experience administering Microsoft infrastructure, including Windows Server and Azure resources. Deploying and managing virtualised environments using VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter. Knowledge of server and storage hardware technologies. Strong understanding of core networking services, including DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, firewalls and VPN connectivity. Proven experience supporting enterprise IT infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking and cloud services. Experience with backup, disaster recovery, patching and infrastructure lifecycle management. Experience with enterprise storage, SAN/NAS and backup solutions. …