Cloud Infrastructure Consultant

Salary: £61,000 - 101,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience delivering infrastructure solutions in consultancy, managed service, or enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Windows Server, including Active Directory Domain Services, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, certificate services, and file and storage services.
• Demonstrable experience implementing and supporting enterprise virtualisation platforms and services, both on premise and as a cloud service.
• Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, covering cluster design, high availability, live migration, shared storage, and virtual networking.
• Experience of infrastructure design, operating system deployment, and storage connectivity, including failover clustering and shared or software-defined storage.
• Experience migrating server estates using structured, low-risk approaches, covering planning, migration tooling, execution, cutover, and decommission.
• Working knowledge of backup, replication, and disaster recovery tooling, including RTO and RPO design.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure IaaS and hybrid cloud, including landing zones, virtual machines, storage, networking, hybrid connectivity, and Azure Monitor.
• Working knowledge of Azure identity and access management (Entra ID, Entra Connect, RBAC, Conditional Access), Infrastructure as Code, and Azure cost optimisation.
• Working knowledge of PowerShell and Terraform for administration, automation, and standardisation.
• Understanding of security hardening, PKI, and compliance baselines such as CIS, and of ITIL-aligned service management.
• Strong customer-facing consultancy and communication skills, able to explain complex technical concepts clearly and deliver to time, cost, and quality targets on chargeable engagements.
• Ability to advise customers on practical AI use cases, risks, and governance considerations.
• Experience using AI-assisted tools responsibly to improve solution design, documentation, or operational efficiency.
• Ability to travel to customer sites and datacentres as required.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance.
• Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application.

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on design and delivery expertise across datacentre, hybrid, and Azure environments, acting as the customers main technical point of contact during engagements.
• Support pre-sales engagements, contributing to solution definition, technical assurance, and scoping of infrastructure, migration, and business continuity opportunities.
• Take handover of solution designs from Pre-Sales Architects, review the agreed scope, define how the solution will be delivered, and flag any gaps or out-of-scope requirements before delivery begins.
• Implement and deploy secure, resilient, well-documented Microsoft Azure infrastructure and hybrid identity solutions, including landing zones, virtual machines, storage, networking, hybrid connectivity, Entra ID, and Azure Monitor, aligned to the Azure Well-Architected Framework and operational support standards.
• Design and deploy Windows Server platforms and core directory services, including Active Directory Domain Services, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, certificate services, and hybrid identity through Entra Connect.
• Design and deploy resilient compute and storage platforms, including failover clustering, high availability, shared and software-defined storage, and the backup and replication that underpins them.
• Lead and support migration of customer server estates, including physical-to-virtual, virtual-to-virtual, datacentre relocation, and migration of workloads into Microsoft Azure.
• Deliver backup and disaster recovery solutions, including OneAdvanced BaaS and DRaaS services, replication tooling, RTO/RPO design, and DR testing.
• Implement security hardening and compliance baselines, including CIS hardening, PKI, encryption at rest and in transit, and access control.
• Contribute to automation and standardisation using Terraform, PowerShell, agreed runbooks, and reference architectures.
• Deliver engagements to agreed time, cost, and quality targets, communicating progress, risks, and dependencies clearly and flagging scope change early.
• Work with operational teams to ensure environments are supportable, resilient, and well documented.
• Produce clear, structured technical design documentation and support service handover activities.
• Act as an escalation resource for complex infrastructure incidents and technical challenges.
• Build trust and long-term relationships with customers as a representative of the wider business.

Technologies:

• AI
• Active Directory
• Azure
• Cloud
• Hyper-V
• IaaS
• Support
• ITIL
• PowerShell
• REST
• RBAC
• Security
• Terraform
• VMware
• Windows
• DevOps
• Embedded
• Microsoft 365
• Office 365

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We are OneAdvanced, working in partnership with hackajob to hire for this hybrid, delivery-focused, customer-facing role within our IT Managed Services and Professional Services teams. We help customers modernise and run their datacentre and Azure environments through structured, outcome-driven technical engagements across on-premises datacentres and Microsoft Azure. We are based in Birmingham (The Mailbox) and operate across the UK, Ireland, India, and Australia. We offer a wide range of benefits, including 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, an option to buy more leave, paid volunteering time, exceptional family leave, robust sick pay, private medical insurance, performance-based rewards, pension contributions, life assurance, income protection, and access to learning and development through our SkillsHub platform and external training. We also provide flexible benefits through RewardHub and are proud of our inclusive culture, ESG commitment, and recognition in the Financial Times Best Employers 2026 list. We deliver SaaS workflow applications and IT services across sectors including Education, Government, Healthcare, Legal, Manufacturing, Housing, and Retail, and our secure platform includes OneAdvanced AI, our private AI service for UK organisations.

last updated 39 week of 2026