Senior Infrastructure Engineer

• Farnborough location – full-time on-site
• Must already hold MoD DV Clearance
• Up to £80kDoE plus package
• Experience needed in Team Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Windows Server, VMware, Linux

Who Are We?

Our client is a leading provider of secure digital solutions, specialising in digital experimentation and fail-safe-fast deployment of cutting‑edge technology in highly secure environments, and is focused on accelerating innovation to enhance operational agility in Defence and National Security. With ambitious plans for growth, the organisation is seeking talented, experienced, and motivated individuals to join its journey. Its multidisciplinary team combines expertise in Secure‑by‑Design, cloud computing, advanced infrastructure, rapid application development, cross‑domain systems, high‑performance computing, data platforms, and cybersecurity.

What will the Senior Infrastructure Engineer be doing?

This role involves maintaining and enhancing secure, multi‑classification virtualised collaboration, development and cloud environments across public, private and hybrid platforms, ensuring alignment with secure‑by‑design principles. You will provide senior‑level infrastructure oversight, including change control, monitoring, incident response, patching, and lifecycle support for SaaS and enterprise systems, ensuring rapid restoration of service and effective risk mitigation.

You’ll drive continual service improvement through trend analysis, problem management, automation and knowledge sharing, while providing technical leadership, stakeholder advice, and maintaining up‑to‑date expertise in cloud and network technologies.

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer Should Have…

• Active security clearance at MoD DV level – due to the nature of the client and role, we can only consider candidates who hold a British passport.
• Be willing to work full‑time on client site in Farnborough

Essential Skills Required

• Team leadership and stakeholder management
• Windows Server 2016+ administration.
• Red Hat OpenShift Linux (CentOS/RedHat/Ubuntu)
• EUD provisioning (Autopilot), maintenance, patching and hardening.
• SSO – concepts and operation.
• Understanding of working in secure environments.
• VMware Azure Networking Automation (scripting Ansible/PowerShell)

Some Desirable Skills

• Kubernetes administration e.g. VMware TKGI
• VMware vSphere/vCenter/VCF.
• Azure/Microsoft 365 administration.
• DevSecOps Tooling
• Elastic
• Nessus
• Application Packaging
• Terraform
• Vault
• Working in Agile sprints

Key Skills

INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER / SENIOR INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER / TEAM LEAD / STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT / VMWARE / DOCKER / TERRAFORM / LINUX / POWERSHELL / NATIONAL SECURITY / DEFENCE / SECURITY CLEARED / DV CLEARED / FARNBOROUGH

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