Senior Infrastructure Engineer

**Are you a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer who enjoys project work?**

**This role is hybrid working, it is 4 days on site per week, 1 days working from home. You must be commutable to one of our sites - Stevenage OR Portsmouth**

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who will be responsible for the implementation, support, and maintenance of all existing and future infrastructure at a very prestigious client site.
You will ensure alignment of all IT infrastructure aspects at the site in accordance with a unified approach. We are looking for a self-motivated and communicative person who thrives in a busy environment with constant change, delivering Ifrastructure projectsand working in a daily operations environment too.
Reporting to the Infrastructure site lead, you will be responsible for seamless operations of the Infrastructure spanning across the three main client sites in the UK.

**What you will be doing**:

- Managing any incidents, requests, changes, and problems
- Management of the server environment/estates
- Maintenance and production of technical documentation to facilitate knowledge sharing and skills development
- Proactively monitor the environments for issues
- Server Availability Planning in line with requirements
- Install and assemble any infrastructure hardware
- Supporting remote customer sites working with multiple infrastructure teams
- Follow standard project processes and procedures in order to produce documentation to be used in proposals
- Evaluate hardware and software (within the server, network, storage)
- Integration and testing of new infrastructure technology (both hardware and software)

**What you will bring**:

- Strong knowledge of Wintel computer hardware & operating systems (Windows 2012, 2016, 2019)
- Virtualisation, VMware ESXi 7.x, including vSphere Compliance and right sizing
- Windows DNS & DHCP, with a good understanding of both principles
- TCP/IP troubleshooting skills
- Active Directory, Group Policy, and Scripting Knowledge
- Windows Server patching using WSUS and SCCM
- Demonstrable experience with VMWare, and Windows servers in administration, operations, and support
- HP Firmware/Driver Patching Management
- HP Enterprise SAN experience and understanding
- HP Chassis and Blade Management

**It would be great if you had**:

- Experience involving multiple Operating System vendors
- Microsoft Certifications (MCP, MCITP, MCSE, MCSA, MCTS)
- Linux/Unix basic skills
- Extensive experience working in a large enterprise virtualised environment
- Security Clearance

If you are 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
Location: Stevenage OR Portsmouth
Security Clearance Level: Must be eligible for Security Clearance
Internal Recruiter: Josh Huggins-Smith

**Salary**: £45,000 to £50,000 + 10k on call allowance
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund**

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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 privilegedenvironment. 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 forthe customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety
- and security-critical markets.