IT Infrastructure Engineer

This role lies within the IT Operations team and is pivotal in supporting and delivering Unite Students IT infrastructure. The IT Infrastructure team at Unite Students complete the full design, implementation and BAU stages of IT infrastructure.

Reporting to the IT Infrastructure manager, this is a hands‑on role in an extremely high performing team, covering a plethora of infrastructure technologies for both day‑to‑day support and maintenance and end to end project delivery.

• Always achieve SLA adherence on infrastructure hosted systems.
• Act as a point of escalation for Unite Students infrastructure, helping the business to quickly and effectively solve infrastructure related issues.
• Complete assigned project and work package requirements to time, quality and within Unite Students infrastructure standards.
• Be the main conduit for initial infrastructure queries coming from other internal teams.
• Work within an ITIL led environment across all disciplines (Incident / Problem / Change / Capacity Management etc.)
• Share responsibility for the internal and external IT infrastructure including hosting/operations, availability management, capacity management, backups and disaster recovery/continuity planning
• Work collaboratively with other members of infrastructure, service desk and wider IT / business teams, ensuring both designed purpose and operational effectiveness of the infrastructure delivered and/or supported
• Quickly understand and support in new infrastructure patterns and technology, learning new technical skills where appropriate and watching external trends and opportunities that will benefit Unite Students

• Experience with in a 2nd line enterprise IT infrastructure support/project team
• Design and support experience of at least 3 of the following vendors` products;
  Microsoft, Red Hat, VMware, Palo Alto, SQL, AWS, Azure, On Prem & O365 Exchange, Veeam, Patching Solutions, Nimble or similar storage solutions, Infrastructure Hardware Experience.
• Infrastructure related, vocational certification in at least 1 of the following vendors` products;
  Microsoft, Red Hat, VMware, Azure, AWS, Networking Experience.
• Experience with Network Infrastructure support and configuration.
• Ability to learn new infrastructure technologies.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• A driving licence and willingness to travel at short notice and availability for Infrastructure team`s On-call rota.

• A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company`s success
• 25 days` paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service
• A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save
• Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends
• Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Lots of other great benefits including an annual Share Save scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more!

Founded in 1991, Unite Students is the UK’s leading provider of purpose‑built student accommodation. You can find us in 23 leading university towns and cities, with 70,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.

We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn’t just what we do but who we are.

Employees, students and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.

We’re proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we’re passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people.

Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what’s right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.