Bristol
Join us as an IT infrastructure Solutions Specialist! Identify requirements for, design and deploy IT Infrastructure platforms in a secure mission‑critical environment.
Salary: Up to £65,500 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 37.5 hours, 5‑day week. Onsite 2 days a week or on business demand.
Security Clearance: British Citizen. After offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo and attain HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS) and DV clearance.
What we can offer you
- Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
- Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
- Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
- Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave – enhancements for paternity, neonatal and fertility treatments
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more
- Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing
The opportunity
Working within the Infrastructure Platforms team, you will be responsible for forming functional and non‑functional requirements, architecting and implementing solutions. You will manage relationships with suppliers and internal customers, be a technical consultant on operational issues and contribute to strategy. This is an exciting opportunity in a fast moving, unique, multi‑national IT function.
Successful candidates will be joining a highly respected, motivated, dynamic and supportive team. The team owns and manages the lifecycle of all Infrastructure & Cloud platforms in the UK. Team members are encouraged to generate continuous improvement initiatives to grow and mature the areas they own. A strong emphasis is placed on gaining technical knowledge and experience through extensive training capabilities of MBDA.
What we’re looking for from you
Essential
- Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft technologies including but not limited to: Windows Server, clustering, Exchange, Active Directory, MECM/SCCM.
- Excellent knowledge of virtualization technologies such as VMWare and Hyper‑V.
- Good understanding of Cloud Services such as Microsoft Azure & integration into on‑premise solutions.
- Proven skill in producing architectural and design documents such as high‑level designs, low‑level designs, specifications and requirements.
- Strong experience in delivering IT projects.
- Strong analytical skills, applying a methodical data‑driven approach.
- Ability to work effectively in multi‑discipline, multi‑cultural and diverse teams. Able to digest complex requirements and communicate solutions to varying levels of technical competency.
- Knowledge of automation and associated topics e.g. Ansible, Desired State Configuration, Azure Automation and PowerShell to achieve tasks such as deployment, patching and configuration management.
Desirable
- Understanding of best practices working in a high security, multiple network environment typical in the defence industry.
- Experience working with database infrastructure for platforms such as SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle.
- Experience with HPC workloads on Windows.
- Experience with infrastructure platform monitoring tools such as Dynatrace.
Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply.
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