Infrastructure Engineer - Stevenage
We are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer with hands‑on experience running and modernising enterprise platforms across Azure and on‑premises environments. Strong in migrations, legacy integration, identity, networking, DevOps pipelines, and resilient infrastructure.
Responsibilities include:
- Build and operate hybrid Azure and on‑prem infrastructure
- Understand end‑to‑end service and data flows
- Modernise and migrate legacy platforms securely
- Integrate cloud and legacy systems via APIs and middleware
- Support and integrate DevOps CI/CD pipelines with hybrid platforms
- Deliver data migrations and basic ETL
- Execute compute, virtualisation, and storage migrations with low or zero downtime
- Engineer enterprise storage and capacity solutions
- Secure hybrid networks using Zero Trust principles
- Drive automation and configuration consistency
- Support hybrid identity with Active Directory and Microsoft Identity
- Design and operate disaster recovery and backup solutions
The Company
The Wine Society has recently celebrated its 150th birthday!
We are a mutual company that puts our members at the heart of everything we do. We source wines from all corners of the world and sell them to members at fair prices, backed up with high levels of customer service.
With a strong reputation for integrity and ‘doing the right thing’, we are renowned as one of the UK’s leading wine merchants. We are a responsible business, committed to making sure that everything we do, across all aspects of the business, is good for the people we work with, good for the products we sell and, above all, good for the planet.
JOB DESCRIPTION
| Summary TWS | The Wine Society is the world’s oldest member-owned community of wine lovers, with more than 180,000 members and an award-winning range of some 1,400 wines. Since 1874 we’ve been doing business differently, putting our members before profit to ensure fairer bottle prices for both the people that enjoy them, and for those who make them. Because we don’t need to keep external shareholders happy, we’re able to put profits back into lower prices and services, so our members get exceptional quality in every bottle they buy. | |
| Job Title | Infrastructure Engineer (Primary Focus: Infrastructure & Network / Cloud & Automation / Security) |
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| Reporting to | IT Infrastructure & Security Manager | |
| Environment | This role sits within the IT Department and reports to the IT Infrastructure & Security Manager. The Infrastructure Engineer plays a key role in supporting and evolving The Wine Society’s technology platform across infrastructure, cloud services, and security.
The role operates within a collaborative engineering team where each engineer has a primary focus area but works across the wider platform to ensure resilience, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement. The role is based in Stevenage with some remote working available. This is a full-time role of 37.5 hours per week. |
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| Salary & Benefits | Salary: Competitive
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| Job purpose | The Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for maintaining, improving, and securing The Wine Society’s technology platform.
This hands-on engineering role involves working across infrastructure, networking, cloud platforms, and security technologies to ensure systems are reliable, secure, and well managed. Infrastructure Engineers collaborate closely with service teams, developers, suppliers, and business stakeholders to deliver technology improvements, resolve complex technical issues, and ensure new systems are implemented securely and effectively. While each engineer will have a primary area of expertise, all team members are expected to contribute across the full platform and support one another, ensuring there are no single points of failure and knowledge is shared across the team. |
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| Principal duties and responsibilities |
Primary Focus Area Each Senior Infrastructure Engineer will have a primary area of expertise while continuing to work across the wider technology platform. Infrastructure Focus: Lead on server infrastructure, connectivity, virtualisation platforms, backup and disaster recovery systems, and on-premise infrastructure. Cloud & Automation Focus: Lead on Azure platform engineering, infrastructure-as-code, automation, monitoring, and cloud platform optimisation. Security Focus: Lead on vulnerability management, security tooling, threat detection, and security architecture improvements aligned to frameworks such as NIST. |
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| Skills and Competencies
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| Personal qualities required |
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| Requirements | Essential | Desirable |
| Educational attainment | Degree in IT, Computer Science, Cyber Security, or equivalent experience. | |
| Knowledge required | Strong understanding of infrastructure platforms including servers, networking, and operating systems.
Understanding of cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure. Knowledge of core security principles and common attack vectors. Understanding of monitoring, patching, and system lifecycle management. |
Familiarity with security frameworks such as NIST, CIS Controls, or Cyber Essentials. |
| Experience required | Worked in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or cloud engineering roles.
Supported complex enterprise systems and infrastructure. Worked with third-party suppliers and managed services providers. Supported incident investigation and root cause analysis. Delivered technical improvements or infrastructure projects. |
Experience with monitoring, observability, or performance management tools.
Experience with infrastructure automation or Infrastructure-as-Code. Experience with vulnerability management or security tooling. Experience working with Microsoft cloud technologies including Azure and Microsoft security platforms. |