Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Time to move? Look what's waiting for you and where you can use your SCCM and windows experience to full advantage! Join this is substantial IT Estate within the Defence sector and put your career on the right path. Large complex Projects and excellent career progression.

As our Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will join the team providing 3rd line support to numerous users using Windows 7 / 10 and SCCM, and also be our Technical Lead and mentor more junior members.

You do need to be eligible for SC and DV Clearance for this position.

Hybrid role based 3 days per week in Salisbury OR Portsmouth, though you will be based on site 5 days a week for the first 3 weeks,

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

What you'll be doing:

• Progress incidents and problems
• Provide Technical Lead support to other, more junior, site teams and projects
• Provide good RCA within a sophisticated environmen
• Maintain an in depth knowledge of Group Policy and AGPM
• MECM management relevant to our team roles
• Scripting - PowerShell, etc
• Application packaging technologies
• Package and distribute software components to the Enterprise using Microsoft MECM
• Support of the corporate environment
• Progress incidents and problems
• Work within business and security frameworks (ITIL, JSP, etc)
• Lead and take part in projects focusing on service issues

What you’ll bring:

• MECM Administration - Software distribution, OS deployment and monthly Patches
• Scripting - PowerShell, VBS etc
• Software and Hardware integration and compatibility testing
• Group policy, AGPM and client end points
• In-depth knowledge of Windows 10/11
• Operating System build and delivery mechanisms
• Experience of VMWare products and virtualisation technologies (Horizon View, VSphere)
• Experience of application packaging technologies, Application Discovery, Application Virtualisation (App-V), etc.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience of application whitelisting (ideally Applocker)
• Software packaging, knowledge and experience of application packaging technologies including, Installshield / Adminstudio, Orca and Scripting - VBS, etc.
• Endpoint device control
• ITIL v4 Foundation
• Knowledge of Software Testing using Sysinternals Tools, including Procmon

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Permanent or Fixed Term Contract
Location: Hybrid Fixed 3 days per week in Salisbury OR Portsmouth. To be based on site 5 days per week for the first 3 weeks.

?Security Clearance Level: Eligible for SC and DV Clearance

Internal Recruiter: Jane
Salary: £45K to £50K
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.