Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational change within our clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.
About the role:
As the OT Infrastructure Engineer / Consultant , you will play a key role in the design, build and delivery of secure, resilient infrastructure supporting complex OT and industrial environments.
You will work across physical and virtual server infrastructure, VMware, Windows and Linux platforms, supporting environments from initial design and build through application integration, testing, commissioning and production go-live.
Working closely with clients and specialists across OT, cyber security, networking, applications and engineering, you will help deliver reliable infrastructure capable of supporting critical operational systems and industrial applications.
This is an opportunity to combine hands-on infrastructure engineering with technical consultancy across a range of complex customer environments.
As an OT Infrastructure Engineer / Consultant, you will:
Design, build and configure VMware environments
Build and configure physical and virtual server infrastructure
Support Windows and Linux-based infrastructure platforms
Support the hosting and deployment of OT and industrial applications
Support application installation, configuration, integration and infrastructure readiness
Undertake system, application and infrastructure testing and validation prior to deployment
Support FAT, SAT, commissioning and production go-live activities
Deliver infrastructure migrations, upgrades and refresh programmes
Configure Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP and supporting infrastructure services
Implement resilient and highly available infrastructure for critical systems
Support SAN, NAS and enterprise storage technologies
Support backup, recovery and disaster recovery solutions
Undertake infrastructure health checks, troubleshooting and performance analysis
Support server hardening, patching, vulnerability remediation and lifecycle management
Produce HLDs, LLDs, build guides, test plans, validation evidence and as-built documentation
Work alongside OT, cyber security, network, application and engineering specialists
Provide technical consultancy and guidance to clients
Requirements
You’ll bring strong hands-on infrastructure engineering experience across physical and virtual server environments, with the capability to design, build and support resilient infrastructure platforms.
Strong hands-on experience with VMware
Strong experience with Windows Server build, configuration and administration
Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or equivalent Linux platforms
Experience deploying physical and virtual server infrastructure
Experience supporting application hosting and application infrastructure
Experience with system testing, validation and acceptance activities
Strong knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS and DHCP
Experience with high availability, clustering and resilient infrastructure
Experience with enterprise server hardware such as Dell, HPE or equivalent
Experience with SAN, NAS and enterprise storage technologies
Experience with backup, recovery and disaster recovery technologies
Good understanding of networking, VLANs, firewalls and segmentation
Experience with server hardening, patching and infrastructure lifecycle management
Experience producing technical infrastructure, build and test documentation
Strong technical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
Confidence working directly with clients and technical stakeholders
Experience within OT, industrial, energy, utilities or Critical National Infrastructure environments would be…