Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.  

Our Telent Technology Services business delivers mission-critical communications, digital and technology solutions that support some of the UK's most essential organisations. As we continue to grow, we're looking for an experienced, Principal Infrastructure Engineer to join our Rail team in Warwick - Hybrid, a day or two a month in Warwick or other Telent site when required.

What you will you be doing?

This is an exciting opportunity to work within the infrastructure team as a Principal Infrastructure Engineer within Rail, with innovative technologies, collaborate with talented colleagues and make a real impact on services that help keep the UK running.

What you will you be doing?

  • You will be producing HLD and LLD’s across the Infrastructure department for Rail projects
  • Work to GRIP/PACE
  • Working to Governance and Frameworks
  • Manage internal infrastructure training for engineers using Infrastructure Lab
  • Work closely with the Senior Infrastructure Engineer and Engineers in regard to any design changes that have been found in implantation and testing phases
  • Use Kanban to manage tasks and workflows.  Assign tasks to engineers and provide updates to the Engineer Infrastructure - Lead.
  • Plan, implement and review changes with adherence to the Change Management guidelines.
    Review maintenance plans, build and procedure documentation.
  • Establish guidelines and procedures for installation, maintenance, and management of infrastructure.
  • Providing timescales and estimated levels of effort to complete project tasks.
  • Planning the commissioning/decommissioning of systems within the datacentre and at the edge.
                                                          

What you will bring

You will have solid IT infrastructure experience, developed technical standards and be able to provide guidance on technical solutions. You will have the opportunity to work on some exciting large-scale projects. Working with the customer engagement during the infrastructure implementation and testing phases, you will manage engineers’ tasks and work on a given project to ensure Implementation and testing phases meet project deadlines.

Key Requirements:

  • Azure
  • MCP
  • MCSE
  • VMware
  • DNS
  • PowerShell
  • SQL
  • Active Directory
  • DNS
  • Design and Documentation experience
  • A good understanding of ITIL & Agile methodologies.
  • MCP, MCSE and VCP – Desirable

What we Offer

At Telent, we know that our people are our greatest asset. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your career, wellbeing and work-life balance.

Our benefits include:

  • 34 days' holiday, including public holidays, with the option to buy or sell up to five additional days each year.
  • Company pension scheme.
  • Family-friendly policies.
  • Employee-funded car leasing scheme.
  • Occupational health support.
  • Ongoing learning and development opportunities.
  • Career progression within one of the UK's leading technology and network services organisations.

We are guided by our values and behaviours:

Be Inclusive

Take Responsibility

Collaborate

Be Customer-focussed


Join us and help deliver critical infrastructure projects that make a real difference.


It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group. 

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