IT Systems Engineer

• Permanent role - excellent career prospects
• Above market salary level (benefits and bonus)
• Hybrid working ( 2 - 3 days onsite per week)

IT Systems Engineer

London | Hybrid Working | Market-Leading Financial Services Organisation
Are you the engineer everyone turns to when the toughest technical challenges arise?

This is an opportunity to step into a highly visible position where you'll influence technical strategy, drive platform innovation, and provide leadership across critical infrastructure and cloud services.

This isn t a role for someone who wants to simply keep the lights on. Its for a technically accomplished engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, championing automation, and setting the standards that others follow.

What you'll Be Doing you'll act as a senior technical authority across the organisation, providing guidance on infrastructure, cloud platforms, identity services and engineering best practices. you'll work closely with leadership teams, fellow engineers and technology partners to ensure platforms remain secure, resilient and future-ready.

Key areas of responsibility will include:

• Leading the design and evolution of enterprise infrastructure and cloud platforms.
• Driving automation initiatives and Infrastructure-as-Code adoption.
• Managing and resolving high-priority technical incidents and platform issues.
• Influencing engineering standards, architecture decisions and technical roadmaps.
• Mentoring engineers and building a culture of technical excellence.
• Working with internal stakeholders and technology partners to deliver robust, scalable solutions.

What We re Looking For We re keen to speak with technically strong infrastructure, systems or platform engineers who can demonstrate experience across several of the following areas:

• Microsoft Azure and cloud engineering.
• Terraform, PowerShell, Ansible and automation frameworks.
• Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory.
• Platform engineering, CI/CD and operational excellence.
• Windows and Linux environments.
• Enterprise networking and infrastructure technologies.
• Leading technical decision-making within complex organisations.
• Coaching and mentoring technical teams.

Desirable Experience

• Financial services, insurance or other regulated environments.
• Kubernetes, Docker and container platforms.
• Microsoft Intune and endpoint management technologies.
• Virtualisation or hyperconverged infrastructure solutions.
• Large-scale cloud transformation programmes.

Why Apply? This is a chance to join an organisation that is investing heavily in its technology landscape and values engineers who want to make a genuine impact. you'll have the freedom to influence engineering direction, work with modern technologies and tackle complex technical challenges that will keep you engaged and developing.

Alongside a competitive salary, you'll benefit from a strong bonus scheme, excellent benefits package and the opportunity to work with a highly capable technology team in a collaborative environment.

If you re looking for a senior engineering role where your expertise will shape strategic technology decisions rather than simply support them, we'd love to hear from you.

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Computappoint do not use AI to filter or assess candidates, we use experienced and dedicated recruiters, who want to match the best people to roles