IT Operations Engineer (Commercial Defence)

GBR Recruitment Ltd are proudly working exclusively with a modern & long standing Lincolnshire based commercial defence business, recruiting for an experienced IT Operations Engineer (Windows Specialism 2016 / 2019) to work on a clients MoD base managing, maintaining & optimising the organisation's core information technology infrastructure, including servers, networks, cloud services & software systems, with the primary goal being to ensure that the technology services remain reliable, secure, available & scalable to support daily commercial defence / MoD business activities.

Our client pride themselves in delivering first class, operationally focused services to the Defence Industry, Ministry of Defence, including UK & overseas Armed Forces.

In this key IT Operations Engineer role you will report directly to the Programme Manager & the end using MoD client, with the opportunity to effectively influence, develop, deliver, maintain & support a Lincolnshire based MOD Organisation.

This role would ideally, suit an experienced IT Operations Engineer / IT Support Engineer / Windows Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer (Windows), or IT Operations Specialist from a Civil Service, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force or Army background as SC clearance will be required to undertake this role.

Duties:

• To provide CIS IT operations engineering Windows specialist expertise on behalf of the Company to the MOD Organisation to support current & future CIS priorities. Maintaining / implementing cybersecurity best practices & actionable safeguards designed to defend the organisation against potential cyberattacks.
• Provide IT operations advice, mentoring & guidance, written & verbal, to an CIS team, technical and programme management. Capture customer practices, processes & requirements.
• Identify areas of operational difficulty, patterns, inefficiency & effectiveness in CIS operations.

Attributes:

Practical Understanding

• Able to create & configure virtual environments & manage resource allocation
• Able to investigate & resolve virtual environment incidents
• Able to install, configure & administer Microsoft Windows Server operation systems
• Able to administer remote desktop services
• Able to investigate & resolve Windows Server operating system incidents

Theoretical Understanding:

• VMWare Sphere or equivalent (Nutarix, PVE, Hyper-V, Kubevirt, Kubernetes or XCP-ng or similar)
• Windows Server 2019 or equivalent (Windows 2022 or 2025)
• HPE Nimble Administration & Integration or equivalent (HPE Alletra)
• Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell or equivalent (Bash, PowerShell or Python)
• Arctera Backup Exec or equivalent (Veeam, VDP, Catalogic DPX or similar)

This role is based 5 days on-site in Lincolnshire (no hybrid) & is commutable from Lincoln, Sleaford, Spalding, Boston, Newark, Gainsborough, Retford, Worksop, Holbeach, Grantham, Long Bennington, Stamford, Scunthorpe, Nottingham & Mansfield.

Interviews to take place immediately.

Please Note: you must be happy to undertake a SC security check for this role as it is on an MoD base.