As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a vital role in supporting, maintaining and enhancing the Club’s core technology infrastructure across Villa Park, Bodymoor Heath, London Office and other Club locations. Working within a fast-paced and innovative environment, you will help ensure the reliability, performance and security of the systems, networks and services that underpin the Club’s day-to-day operations both on and off the pitch.
You will be responsible for monitoring and maintaining a wide range of infrastructure technologies, including networking, Wi-Fi, firewalls, VPNs, servers, storage, backup solutions, virtualisation platforms and cloud-based identity services. Supporting technologies such as Microsoft Active Directory, Entra ID, Intune and Windows Server, you will carry out routine administration, troubleshooting, patching and maintenance activities while helping to resolve infrastructure incidents and minimise service disruption across the business.
Working closely with colleagues across IT, Information Security and external partners, you will support technology improvement projects, platform upgrades, service enhancements and infrastructure refresh programmes. You will also contribute to maintaining a secure and resilient environment through vulnerability remediation, adherence to security best practices and the creation of high-quality technical documentation.
For further information about the Role, please see the Role Profile.
The Person
We are looking for a proactive and technically-minded IT professional with experience in a technical support or infrastructure environment and a genuine passion for technology. You will have a strong understanding of networking fundamentals, Microsoft technologies and core infrastructure services, alongside experience supporting Windows environments and identity platforms such as Active Directory and Entra ID.
You will possess strong problem-solving, communication and organisational skills, with the ability to troubleshoot technical issues, manage competing priorities and work effectively within a collaborative team environment.
You must be able to work flexible hours as the Club requires, this will include evenings and weekends and have access to a vehicle and / or the ability to travel between our Club sites; Villa Park, London Office and Bodymoor Heath Training Ground.
Why Join Us?
There has never been a better time to join Aston Villa Football Club. Our drive to succeed is visible on the global stage, we are building a family ethos and culture to be proud of, and realising our ambitious plans for the expansion and improvement of our world-class facilities. If you are already excited by this challenge and want to play your part in our historic Club, then you’ll be pleased to hear about our amazing staff benefits you’ll receive whilst working for us! See our Staff Benefits booklet to find out more.
As part of your application, you will be asked to:
1) Upload your CV
2) Answer the following question:
a) Please outline your key skills, qualities and experience which make you the ideal candidate for this role (400 words maximum)
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We welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, race, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, sex and religion or belief.
Safeguarding Statement
Aston Villa Football Club is fully committed to safeguarding children and adults at risk across our Club. As such, we adhere to Safer Recruitment processes and for some roles a satisfactory enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure & Barring Service may be required prior to starting in a role at the Club. For more information, please see Aston Villa Football Club | The official club website | AVFC – Safeguarding