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Infrastructure Engineer - Security, Resilience & Recovery

  • Posted October 12, 2026
  • £400 - £470 per day
  • Milton Keynes
  • Contract

Infrastructure Engineer – Security, Resilience & Recovery
Milton Keynes (Hybrid, 2 days on site)
Contract
– outside of IR35

Our client is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to play a key role in a major business transformation and security programme. This is a hands-on engineering position focused on delivering secure, resilient and supportable infrastructure solutions across cloud, on-premise and SaaS environments.

This role will suit someone with a strong background in enterprise backup and recovery, disaster recovery, vulnerability remediation and infrastructure modernisation, who enjoys owning solutions from detailed design through to implementation and operational handover.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement and improve enterprise backup, recovery and disaster recovery solutions.
  • Support the implementation of Rubrik as the strategic backup and cyber-recovery platform.
  • Lead disaster recovery testing, cyber recovery exercises and resilience improvements.
  • Remediate infrastructure vulnerabilities, technical debt and unsupported technologies.
  • Strengthen security controls across cloud, server, network and identity platforms.
  • Onboard infrastructure and cloud services into vulnerability management, monitoring and security tooling.
  • Develop technical standards, operational procedures, runbooks and recovery documentation.
  • Work closely with architecture, security, cloud, networking and service support teams to deliver secure and supportable solutions.

Essential Experience

  • Strong hands-on experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering or Platform Engineering.
  • Extensive experience with backup, recovery and disaster recovery technologies.
  • Proven experience designing and testing recovery solutions for critical services and applications.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 and AWS.
  • Experience delivering infrastructure upgrades, platform modernisation and vulnerability remediation programmes.
  • Knowledge of infrastructure security, privileged access, patching, encryption and network security.
  • Experience working within complex enterprise environments and structured change processes.

We’re particularly interested in engineers who can demonstrate expertise across:

  • Enterprise backup and recovery
  • Disaster recovery and cyber resilience
  • Security vulnerability management
  • Infrastructure risk remediation
  • Cloud and platform modernisation
  • Observability, monitoring and operational readiness

Experience working within highly regulated environments such as financial services, insurance or other governance-led organisations would be advantageous.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

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