About The Role
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Hereford, England, United Kingdom
Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Hybrid
The Opportunity 🚀
At MandM Direct, technology is the backbone of our retail operation — powering everything from our eCommerce platform to our warehouse systems and head office functions.
We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to play a critical role in maintaining and evolving the infrastructure that supports one of Europe’s leading online off-price retailers. This is a high-level technical authority role, focused on building a secure, scalable, and resilient environment that enables innovation across the business.
80% of your time will be dedicated to strategic project delivery and infrastructure evolution, prioritizing long-term growth over day-to-day operational tasks. If you’re passionate about building stable, high-performing infrastructure at an enterprise scale, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
Who Are we?
MandM is one of the biggest employers in Herefordshire and one of Europe’s leading online, off-price retailers, selling branded Fashion, Sport & Outdoor products for Men, Women and Children.
We offer our customers fantastic value by partnering with companies who we have built long term relationships with, enabling us to offer our customers big household names and up-and-coming brands, giving fantastic value all year round.
We are located in the heart of Hereford City Centre in our brand new, state of the art office. The modern, stylish workspace was designed to encourage collaborative working, teamwork and creativity - everything that MandM is all about.
As our business continues to grow we are recruiting for a talented Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing team. Why not come be a part of our journey to success and take advantage of all MandM can offer you!
More than a role
✨ Competitive Salary: Your talent deserves recognition
🤝 Giving Back: 2 days paid volunteering to support a cause you care about
🚀 Career Growth: Opportunity to grow
🎁 Staff Discounts: Stay stylish with our exclusive discounts.
🏦 Company Pension: Secure your financial future.
🏖️ Generous Holiday Allowance: Enjoy 5 weeks of well-deserved breaks. You even have the option to buy an extra week
🎁 Birthday Delight: Take your special day off to celebrate YOU
🚗 Free Parking
💊 Health & Wellbeing programme; we’ll look after you
The Role Scope
As Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will operate as a senior technical authority within Tech Operations. Your focus will be on ensuring our infrastructure remains secure, scalable and high-performing, while driving forward modernisation initiatives. You’ll collaborate closely with the Infrastructure Team Lead and wider technology stakeholders, acting as a senior escalation point and contributing to best-in-class infrastructure standards across our enterprise environment.
Role key responsibilities:
✨ Infrastructure Strategy & Standards
Contribute to the definition of infrastructure principles and technical standards.
Ensure solutions align with architectural direction and long-term scalability.
Evaluate emerging technologies to support future capability.
✨ Project Delivery & Modernisation
Lead enterprise-scale infrastructure projects (500+ users).
Key Focus: Drive Lifecycle Management automation, particularly within the Okta and Microsoft stack.
Design and implement secure, resilient solutions across the environment.
✨ Operational Excellence
Act as a senior escalation point for complex 3rd line issues.
Support and deep-dive into network, server, identity and virtualisation environments.
Participate in a 1-in-5 week on-call rota for emergency hardware support.
✨ Technical Leadership
Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers.
Promote a "team-first" culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
Create alignment across technical stakeholders.
About You
✨What we’re looking for
1. Enterprise Depth: Proven experience in large-scale infrastructure environments (500+ users).
2. Network Expertise:Firewall expertise and core routing/switching (Junos CLI, Juniper, OSPF, BGP, VLANs).
3. Identity Automation: Deep knowledge of Identity & Access Management, specifically Okta Lifecycle Management automation.
4. The Microsoft Stack: Strong experience with Windows Server (legacy and modern), AD, and Entra.
5. Virtualisation & Cloud: VMware and GCP experience.
6. Scripting: Proficiency in PowerShell and experience using APIs for automation.
7. Troubleshooting: A logical, granular approach to identifying and resolving complex multi-site connectivity issues.
8. Logistics: Full UK Driving license and the ability to be within a 1-hour commute of Hereford for on-call duties.
✨ Desirable: Terraform, Linux administration, Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Cisco Meraki, Google Workspace.
Why Join MandM?
9. 80% focus on strategic project delivery and infrastructure evolution.
10. Opportunity to shape infrastructure standards and best practice for a major retailer.
11. Collaborative, squad-based working model.
12. Influence across a high-availability, large-scale environment.