Windows Engineer – Contract - Hybrid (2 days onsite in Leeds).
This is an initial 6 month contract, paying £500 per day, inside IR35, 2 days a week onsite in central Leeds.
We are seeking a skilled contract Windows Engineer to join a client's infrastructure engineering team. This is a hands-on role where you will play a key part in building, hardening, and automating Windows environments to enterprise standards.
Key Responsibilities
* Produce vanilla Windows builds and apply hardening/security baselines to meet compliance and security standards.
* Partner with senior engineers to automate build pipelines and design repeatable Day-2 operations patterns.
* Collaborate with VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) developers to orchestrate provisioning workflows and streamline server deployments.
* Support onboarding of applications into a secure, standardised Windows platform.
* Contribute to continuous improvement, ensuring automation patterns are efficient, scalable, and platform-agnostic.
Skills & Experience Required
1. Strong background in Windows Server engineering within enterprise environments.
2. Proven experience applying hardening and security baselines to meet organisational and compliance requirements.
3. Hand...