Infrastructure Engineer - Wintel
Mar 13, 2025
Infrastructure Engineer (Wintel/Cloud) at Ground Control
Ground Control (GC) is the UK s largest external maintenance and commercial landscaping company. We are a values-centred business, creating and maintaining external spaces that are safe and enjoyable for all. We are the contractor of choice for many well-known private and public organisations such as Network Rail, Tesco, Severn Trent Water, Sainsbury s, and the Tower of London, to name a few.
We have an opening for an Infrastructure Engineer within our infrastructure team. The primary focus for this role will be to assist the Head of IT Infrastructure with optimising and enhancing our on-prem and cloud-based IT systems. This will be a Hybrid role with time required in the Billericay HQ.
You will take a pivotal role in the design, build and management of the on-premise servers (Windows), virtualisation (Hyper-V) and our cloud infrastructure (Azure). This includes working on both physical and virtual hardware.
We are expanding our virtualisation stack and cloud architecture therefore we need someone who can both support/maintain as well as enhance/secure our servers.
You will help us maintain our recognised security accreditation, ISO27001 and help to attain Cyber Essentials Plus, identifying and addressing any reported cyber security risks within our IT estate, recommending best practises, vulnerability remediation where possible and feed into new process and structural initiatives to elevate our overall security posture.
How we work
Everyone is welcome, and we are embracing a culture where difference is valued. Your uniqueness will be celebrated. We believe diversity grows innovation, and innovation creates initiative. Together we will succeed in caring for each other, caring for our communities, and caring for our environment.
What we offer
At Ground Control we believe in rewarding our employees for their hard work. Along a great basic salary, we also offer a wide-ranging benefits programme inspiring you to realise your full potential:
Perks and Benefits
- We are an Investors in People Gold Standard company
- Sunday Times 2019 Top Track 250 Company, and the LSE s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain .
- The Queens Award for Enterprise - Innovation 2021 & 2022
- We inclusively support The Race at Work Charter , Ban the Box , The Armed Forces Covenant and are Disability Confident .
- We offer a supportive, entrepreneurial working environment that fosters inclusion & collaboration.
- We invest 5% of our profits into the Evergreen Fund, an investment fund dedicated to sustainability and environmental initiatives.
- By 2025 we have committed to planting 1,000,000 trees, having a fully electric fleet, and being carbon neutral.
- A competitive salary and semi-annual bonuses, share options, 2 x salary Death in Service cover.
- Training, development, coaching and mentoring opportunities, with a clear career path progression.
- Match funding for employee fundraising and 2 personal choice volunteering days.
- Free gym access and nursery vouchers.
- Cycle to work scheme and travel loans.
- Bupa employee support, free flu jab, subscriptions to an online GP service and Calm, the wellbeing app.
What you will achieve
- Take ownership of and help clear the backlog of infrastructure projects and tasks.
- Along with the rest of the infrastructure team, ensure that all our IT services are available within applicable SLAs.
- Complete our procedures knowledge based by defining repeatable and efficient procedures for infrastructure maintenance.
- Identify and suggest areas for improvement.
- Substantially contribute towards the gradual migration of all our environments to Azure.
Who we are seeking ;
- You have accumulated a considerable knowledge and experience of infrastructure (virtualisation, networking, storage, monitoring, Windows Server 2012/16/19, Active Directory, etc.) through a strong relevant engineering degree and/or solid experience in infrastructure-related roles.
- You have substantial experience of on-prem data centre maintenance and management.
- You have experience in building multi-tiered cloud architectures (preferably in Azure).
- In-depth knowledge preferable or as a minimum awareness of the following Azure fundamentals such as: Azure AD and Microsoft on premise AD, Active Directory SSO, Storage Accounts, VPN, Remote Desktop Services ( RDS), Virtual Machines, Powershell.
- Software Defined Networking (SDN)
- Expert in Windows Server administration (Server 2012 onwards)
- Experienced with Hyper-V clustering
- You are an expert in PowerShell (or equivalent scripting languages).
- Expert in Microsoft 365 services - Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams
- Knowledge of and experience with MS Intune would be a distinct advantage.
- Remote Desktop Services with MFA/2FA and Azure Virtual Desktops
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and can express product requirements in a clear, structured fashion to both technical and non-technical audiences.
We have ambitious plans, join us!
