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The role provides hands-on delivery across core infrastructure technologies, reviews scopes and estimates for technical accuracy and deliverability, and combines customer-facing consultancy with technical leadership and problem-solving.\nSalary & Benefits\nThe budgeted salary for this role is between £60,000 - £75,000 a year, depending on experience.\nClick here for the list of benefits.\nHybrid working\nWe recognise the benefits that remote and flexible working brings.\nWe operate a hybrid working policy that allows our employees to balance time in the office and time from home. Each team within our organisation can decide how to implement this policy. If you have any questions after applying, please reach out to our recruitment team.\nResponsibilities\nSome of your day-to-day responsibilities will include:\nLeading infrastructure projects from discovery and design through to implementation, testing, migration and operational handover\n\nDelivering hands-on technical work across Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows Server, Azure, VMware, storage, backup and recovery, Azure Virtual Desktop, security and management tooling\n\nSupporting data centre migration and decommissioning activities\n\nReviewing and validating scopes of work, delivery assumptions and effort estimates\n\nEnsuring technical plans are accurate, complete, realistic and achievable\n\nProviding senior customer-facing consultancy throughout project delivery\n\nSolving complex technical issues and support project decision-making\n\nLeading small work packages and engineering teams to deliver successful outcomes\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nProjects are delivered confidently end-to-end, with technical work completed accurately from discovery and design through to implementation, migration, testing and handover\n\nCustomers trust your expertise, seeing you as a credible, professional advisor who communicates clearly and handles complex infrastructure challenges effectively\n\nTechnical delivery is high quality and dependable, with solutions that are well-designed, secure, realistic, and aligned to customer requirements\n\nWork is well managed and commercially sound, with scopes, assumptions and effort estimates that are accurate, achievable and support successful delivery\n\nYou add leadership value to the team, helping to solve problems, guide engineers, lead small work packages and contribute to smooth, successful project outcomes\n\nQualifications & Experience\nThe right candidate for this role will have:\nStrong end-to-end infrastructure project delivery experience, from discovery and design through to implementation, migration, testing and handover\n\nDeep hands-on technical expertise across core infrastructure platforms, especially Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows Server, Azure and VMware\n\nExperience delivering across supporting infrastructure services, such as storage, file services, backup and recovery, Azure Virtual Desktop, security and management tooling\n\nProven ability to deliver complex migrations and transformation work, including data centre migration and decommissioning\n\nStrong technical design and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate customer requirements into practical, supportable solutions\n\nExperience reviewing and validating scopes of work, assumptions and effort estimates to ensure delivery is realistic, accurate and achievable\n\nCustomer-facing consultancy skills, including strong communication, stakeholder management and the ability to build credibility with clients\n\nAbility to lead small work packages or engineering teams, providing technical direction and ensuring quality delivery\n\nGood understanding of infrastructure security, operational standards and service handover requirements\n\nStrong documentation and governance discipline, including producing clear designs, implementation plans, test evidence and handover material\n\nAbout Us:\nWe are the tech company with people at heart.\nAt Advania, we believe in empowering people to create sustainable value through the clever use of technology. 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