We’re Pipe Ten, a cloud consultancy and infrastructure provider based in Kelham Island, Sheffield. We’re looking for a Junior Systems Engineer to join our engineering team, and this is a proper junior role: we care far more about curiosity and attitude than years of experience or a CV that ticks every box.

If you’re the sort of person who builds PCs for fun, runs a home lab, tinkers with networking, or just can’t leave a problem alone until you understand how it works, we’d like to hear from you.

About us

We’ve been running secure, high-performance infrastructure and applications for our customers since 2002, working across fintech, edtech and other regulated, high assurance industries. We’re ISO 27001 certified, our customers trust us with the systems their businesses run on, and we take that seriously.

We’re a small team, but a deeply experienced one. People tend to stay with us for a long time, and we think that’s down to a culture where asking questions is encouraged, knowledge gets shared freely, and nobody is left doing the same repetitive task day in, day out. Our work spans private cloud, Azure and AWS, physical data centres, endpoint security, monitoring, patching and customer environments, so there’s a lot of ground to learn and plenty of room to grow.

The role

This is a deliberately broad, hands on position. You’ll spend a meaningful portion of your time working with physical hardware in our data centres, alongside learning how we manage customer infrastructure across private cloud, Azure and AWS. You’ll work alongside our engineers, picking up real responsibility as your knowledge and confidence build.

We’re not expecting you to arrive knowing Terraform, Kubernetes and Ansible. We’re expecting you to be curious, careful, willing to ask questions, and keen to build a career in infrastructure and cloud engineering.

No two weeks will look quite the same, but you can expect to get involved in things like:

• Monitoring and managing cloud infrastructure environments
  Working across both Linux and Windows Operating Systems
• Patching, maintenance and general infrastructure upkeep
• Helping troubleshoot and resolve customer tickets
• Physical data centre work: racking, cabling and hardware lifecycle tasks
• Supporting endpoint security and platform reliability
• Writing internal documentation and sharing what you learn
• For your first month you’ll be mostly office based while you settle in and get to know our environment. After that, we’re happy for you to move to a flexible hybrid arrangement.

Who we’re looking for

We’re open minded about background. You could be a graduate with a placement year or personal projects behind you, someone in a junior IT support role wanting to move into infrastructure and cloud, or a self-taught tinkerer with a home lab and a stack of half-finished projects. What matters is a genuine, demonstrable interest in infrastructure, not just a general IT background.

You’ll need:

Some evidence of hands on interest in IT infrastructure:

• a course, a previous role, a home lab, self-study or similar
• Basic Linux or Windows Server command-line familiarity. It doesn’t need to be extensive, but you should be able to show it
• To be comfortable with physical work. This role involves racking hardware, cabling and working in a data centre
• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle
• To live within easy commuting distance of Sheffield (30 minutes). You’ll travel regularly to our Sheffield office and data centre, and to our data centres in Derby and Manchester when needed

It’s a bonus, but not a requirement, if you have:

• Networking basics such as IP addressing, VLANs and subnets
• Any scripting exposure: Bash, PowerShell or Python
• Any public cloud exposure with Azure or AWS
• Any experience with monitoring or endpoint security tools

What you’ll get from us

• A genuine entry point into infrastructure and cloud engineering, with training and development support
• Direct mentoring from engineers who have been doing this for a long time
• Varied work spanning cloud, infrastructure and hands-on hardware
• A stable, long established business with strong staff retention
• Hybrid and flexible working once you’re up and running

If you’ve read this far and you’re wondering whether you’re experienced enough, apply anyway. Attitude, values and curiosity matter more to us than any specific technology list.

You can find out more about us and the work we do at pipeten.com