Contract Infrastructure Engineer - Corsham (SC / DV)

My client currently have an exciting opportunity for an Infrastructure Engineer to join their existing experienced team.

You will need active SC or DV clearance for this role.

What do they look for in an Infrastructure Engineer?

They are powered by brilliant people.

Join them on exciting and important work that is underway. The successful candidates will be fully briefed on the work and their part in it. They will have daily contact with the company directors, and the opportunity for progression. Time and money will be provided for personal development and training. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape the company going forward, in work and in its wider environment.

Their organisation specialises in pioneering solutions within National Security & Defense, emphasising Secure by Design methodologies. As a valued member of their team, you'll contribute to cutting-edge projects, creating highly secure and high-performance software systems.

You will be looking to expand on the skills and knowledge gained through a degree or equivalent training and have a passion for solving technical problems.

Technology Experience:

• VMWare Tanzu, VCF (vCenter, Horizon, NSX
• MS Hyper-V, Ubuntu/Linux, S2D
• VxRail
• Paradox
• CCNP level network experience
• MS Office, Sharepoint, Exchange
• EJBCA, Userlock, Keycloak
• Kibana, Ping, Nessus, netbox, elastic,
• Government and international military encryption

Essentials Key skills:

• Windows Server 2016+ administration.
• VMware vSphere/vCenter/VCF.Azure/Microsoft 365 administration.
• Linux (CentOS/RedHat/Ubuntu).
• PowerShell.
• EUD provisioning (Autopilot), maintenance, patching and hardening.
• SSO - concepts and operation.
• Understanding of working in protectively marked environments.

Responsibilities will be defined during induction and are likely to include:

• Maintain, improve, and secure their multi-classification, virtualised, collaboration and development environments.

• Work with IT infrastructure colleagues to improve Their 'Secure by Design’ capabilities, internally and across its projects.

• Provide Infrastructure support to Their public cloud SaaS offerings (Office 365) as well as project-based systems (public, private and hybrid clouds) in implementation and support lifecycles.

• Perform maintenance tasks on the infrastructure through change control.

• Assist with monitoring and management of theirs and project-based ticketing and alerting systems for new changes and security alerts.

• Triage monitoring alerts and perform appropriate action.

• Maintain monitoring components in line with infrastructure developments.

• Ensure all platforms are patched in line with provider recommendations and their security policy.

• Quickly and accurately assess impact of incidents, initiate return to service and ensure follow up actions are completed.

• Identify trends and problems and plan changes to improve stability and performance.

• Maintain cutting edge knowledge and skills in the design and build of secure public, private, and hybrid cloud and network technologies.

• Develop personal knowledge through study/research toward vocational certifications in relevant technologies/vendors.

• Advise customers and project teams on infrastructure and support aspects.

• Cascade knowledge through knowledge articles for the team and wider organisation.

• Support their team in winning business.

Why Join Them?

They are a leading provider of secure digital solutions, specialising in digital experimentation and focused on fail-safe-fast cutting-edge technology solutions deployed in highly secure environments. They are unified in their mission to accelerate innovation and adoption of secure, digital technology to improve the operational agility of Defence and National Security. This is an exciting time for them, they have ambitious plans for continued growth and development, and they are seeking to add brilliant, experienced, motivated, and passionate people to their team to work with them on this journey.

Their team is a fusion of brilliance, featuring senior operational, technical, and business leaders from various industries and the armed forces. They're also powered by a league of extraordinary IT engineers, architects, developers, and project managers. Together, they're an unstoppable force of digital innovation!

Their expertise includes Secure-by-Design, cloud computing, advanced network and infrastructure design, rapid application development, cross-security domain systems, multi-tenanted High-Performance Compute, multi-source data platforms, cyber vulnerability mitigation, and intelligence systems. They provide supplier-agnostic, technical, and business consultancy to customers while championing open-source and best-of-breed technologies.

If this sounds like a good fit for you, apply now!

£450-550 p/d.