Senior Infrastructure Engineer (SC Eligible)
- Farnborough, Hampshire
- £70,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
Location: Farnborough (Hybrid)
Salary: £70,000-£75,000 + excellent benefits
Clearance: Must be eligible for SC clearanceLooking to take your infrastructure expertise into high-impact defence and national security projects? This is a great opportunity for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join a fast-growing consultancy delivering innovative, secure IT solutions across public and private cloud environments. You'll be working at the cutting edge of virtualisation, cloud and automation in a business where technical excellence and collaboration go hand-in-hand.What you'll be doing
- Maintaining and improving multi-classification, virtualised and cloud-based environments
- Leading Ubuntu upgrade and optimisation activity, mentoring junior engineers along the way
- Supporting “secure by design” practices across projects and internal platforms
- Providing infrastructure support across Office 365, Azure and hybrid cloud systems
- Performing patching, hardening and monitoring to keep systems compliant and secure
- Supporting Elastic upgrades, VMware and Openshift environments
- Automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration (e.g. Ansible, PowerShell)
- Triaging and resolving alerts, incidents and change requests in line with IT security policy
- Sharing knowledge through documentation, training and supporting the wider team
- Strong background in Windows Server (2016+) and Linux (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu)
- Experience with VMware, Azure and networking fundamentals
- EUD provisioning (Autopilot), patching and hardening experience
- Understanding of SSO, secure environments and protective marking
- Familiarity with automation tools (Ansible, PowerShell)
- Desirable: Kubernetes, Terraform, Elastic, Nessus, HashiCorp Vault, Microsoft 365 administration, Agile ways of working
- Work in a forward-looking consultancy solving some of the UK's most complex IT and security challenges
- Collaborate with a close-knit, expert team in a supportive culture that values continuous learning
- Exposure to modern cloud, security and automation tools across varied projects
- Hybrid working model from Farnborough HQ with flexibility built in
- Competitive salary, strong benefits and career growth opportunities