IT Core Systems Engineer

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Core Systems Engineer to help design, deliver, and support infrastructure platforms that are highly available, secure, and resilient.**** This role is focused on infrastructure modernisation and project delivery, covering hybrid infrastructure, identity services, datacentre operations, resilience, and platform improvement initiatives. You will play a key role in shaping the future direction of our core systems as we continue evolving towards a more modern, secure, and cloud-aligned technology estate.**** While there is an element of BAU support and operational ownership, the role is primarily centred around delivering strategic infrastructure improvements and engineering-led projects.****

Requirements

Mandatory Experience We are specifically looking for someone who has experience with:**** · Identity platform redesign, migration, consolidation, or security hardening initiatives**** · Designing and testing disaster recovery and failover processes within production environments**** · Delivering or contributing to security-focused infrastructure initiatives**** · Supporting and improving enterprise infrastructure platforms across hybrid environments**** · Working with a broad range of infrastructure technologies, including identity, virtualisation, storage, networking, and backup systems**** · Enterprise networking fundamentals, including routing, segmentation, DNS, and firewall concepts** Working Style · Project-driven environment with a high level of ownership and accountability**** · Small engineering team with the autonomy to deliver meaningful technical improvements**** · Primarily remote working, with on-site attendance once per week (or as required) at the London office and datacentre**** · Participation in an on-call rota and occasional out-of-hours work**** Who Are We Looking For? · 5+ years’ experience within core infrastructure, systems engineeAble to identify weaknesses or inefficiencies within existing platforms and drive improvements · Focused on reducing complexity, improving maintainability, and lowering operational overhead**** · Comfortable taking ownership of systems, platforms, or technical deliverables with minimal supervision**** · Able to work from defined technical requirements and low-level designs while ensuring high implementation standards**** · Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a structured and methodical approach**** · Security-conscious, designing solutions with resilience, recoverability, and operational stability in mind**** · Comfortable operating as a trusted technical contributor within a wider engineering team**** · Strong communication and documentation skills across both technical and non-technical audiences**** · Motivated to continuously learn and develop through both self-led study and formal training****

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• DNS

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• • Hybrid
• primarily remote working but on-site attendance once per week (or as often as work requires) to the London office and Datacentre
• Holiday allowance
• 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends
• Pension scheme