IT Infrastructure Specialist - Cyber Security, AI/ML & Web

Reference
1096569

Branch
University of Staffordshire

Start date
02/06/2025

Duration
3 Months

Hours and days
Full time hours

Dress code
Smart Casual

Rate of pay
£12.50

Holiday rate
£1.51

Role

Our client is a company is looking for a highly skilled and proactive IT Infrastructure Specialist to support them for this project. This role involves managing the end-to-end IT infrastructure for a UK-based company operating across nine office locations. The successful candidate will play a critical role in maintaining secure, scalable, and high-performance digital operations across cloud services, networks, and internal systems.

This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a rapidly evolving digital environment, with exposure to enterprise-level cloud architecture, DevOps practices, and innovative tech solutions for both internal tools and public-facing platforms.

Duties and responsibilities

The successful candidate will be expected to undertake the following responsibilities:

• Monitor and Manage IT infrastructure across multiple office locations, including devices, networks, websites, databases, and cloud services.
• Monitor and Maintain zero-security-incident environments through advanced firewall configuration, secured VPNs, and proactive monitoring.
• Design, monitor and manage centralized network solutions, enabling real-time control and visibility via mobile interfaces.
• Lead the development and maintenance of a hybrid AWS cloud environment for hosting applications and websites.
• Act as the lead administrator for web infrastructure (React, PHP, HTML, WordPress) ensuring uptime, performance, and security.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines with strict access control for development and production environments.
• Architect and maintain multi-cloud infrastructure, with a focus on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, Route53, Lambda, IAM).
• Support healthcare tech development through infrastructure design with HIPAA-aware practices.
• Develop custom monitoring tools to ensure service health and uptime.
• Optimize relational and NoSQL databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis.

Skills and experience

The ideal candidate will have:

• Proven experience in end-to-end infrastructure management and AWS cloud architecture.
• Strong understanding of IT security best practices and tools.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps processes.
• Proficiency in modern web technologies and CMS platforms.
• Advanced knowledge of networking, system monitoring, and cloud security.
• Ability to work independently and meet technical challenges with proactive solutions.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and project management skills.

Location
Cannock

Additional information

• The project that the successful candidate will support on will last for 12 weeks.

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