Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Are you a Developed Vetting (DV) Cleared Infrastructure Engineer looking for a role where you can work across project delivery, service transition and operational support within a major Defence programme?

Join a team of infrastructure professionals delivering and supporting secure messaging and infrastructure platforms operating within highly classified environments. Based on site in Hemel Hempstead you'll play a key role in building, transitioning and supporting services that underpin critical Defence and national security outcomes.

This is a varied infrastructure engineering role rather than a traditional support position. You'll be involved in the development and integration of new capabilities, the transition of services into live operation, and the ongoing enhancement of existing platforms. Working alongside experienced subject matter experts, infrastructure specialists and development teams, you'll gain exposure to a broad technology estate while continuing to develop your technical expertise within one of the UK's most secure working environments.

What you'll be doing:

Supporting the delivery, integration and transition of infrastructure services into live production.

Providing operational support and continuous improvement for secure messaging and infrastructure platforms.

Building, maintaining and enhancing infrastructure operating within highly classified Defence environments.

Working across Windows Server, Linux, Active Directory, VMware, storage and virtualisation technologies.

Contributing to project delivery activities within a major greenfield Defence programme.

Supporting critical platforms that underpin Defence and national security outcomes.

What you'll bring:

Active UK DV clearance.

Experience supporting Wintel and server-based environments within complex enterprise infrastructures.

Broad infrastructure knowledge across Windows Server, Active Directory, VMware, Linux and networking technologies.

Experience working across multiple infrastructure technologies rather than a single technical specialism.

Knowledge of infrastructure support, system administration and platform maintenance activities.

A proactive approach to taking ownership of work and delivering against objectives.

It would be great if you had:

Knowledge of ITIL Service Management processes and practices.

Accreditation to MCP level or equivalent.

Experience of Infrastructure-as-Code or server infrastructure automation concepts.

Experience supporting secure messaging platforms.

Customer service skills and experience resolving complex technical issues.

If you're 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: Full-time, Permanent.

Location: Hemel Hempstead.

Security Clearance Level: Active DV.

Internal Recruiter: Annecia.

Salary: Up to £50,000.

Benefits: Bonus, 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.

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.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your appli