Senior Systems Engineer

5 months ago


Woking, United Kingdom Roke Full time

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll join an expanding Corporate Services IT department that supports mission critical work completed by over 1000 end users across hundreds of servers. The unique nature of the business areas you and your team will support create complex and often time-critical demands to deliver effective, reliable and enduring IT platforms across ‘conventional’ on-premise systems, cloud computing and ‘air-gapped’ systems.

Roke are a leading technology & engineering company with clients spanning National Security, Defence and Industry through our Futures business and Intelligence as a Service. You will work alongside our customers to solve their complex and unique challenges. 

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll be understanding, maintaining and developing specific aspects of an enterprise IT environment; encompassing tasks across technical design, implementation and support.

Key Experience...

Systems engineering experience at technical lead level with vendor technologies such as Microsoft, Amazon (AWS), VMWare, RedHat of similar. Able to design, support and maintain internal IT environments, platforms and services at SME level or above. Awareness of Defence or National Security IT standards, a background within these domains would be preferential; including within environments that operate at multiple classification levels. Some exposure to Solution or Enterprise Architecture methods, you do not need to be a practitioner.

Key Technologies..

Below are some of the key enterprise IT technologies deployed at Roke, you do not need to be a specialist that covers all of these; training and support will be provided in time where required;

Corporate Microsoft Estate: 1000+ desktops and hundreds of servers deployed across Romsey, Gloucester, Woking & Manchester. This include ‘On-Prem’ Microsoft full stack alongside 0365, Azure and AWS offerings. Cloud platforms: Primarily AWS and Azure covering organisation design (layout), tenancy/account management, security, identity management, service provisioning and reporting functions. Identity and Directory services: Design, management and maintenance of Microsoft Active Directory, OpenLDAP, KeyCloak and Microsoft’s enterprise Single Sign-On technologies. Mobile device management: Covering 300+ deployed mobile devices, applying best practice and industry standards. Cyber security and information assurance: Managing and maintaining intrusion detection apparatus, supporting queries/investigations and hardened configuration of IT equipment. DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering: Supporting enterprise software teams and their Ci/CD requirements using tools such as GitLab, Jenkins or SonarQube etc.

Built over a 60-year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act – through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe – that’s our mission, passion, and motivation.

Joining a team united by purpose and ambition, you’ll be at the heart of an exciting growth journey: having doubled in size over the last 4 years, we intend to double our headcount by 2027. At Roke, every individual counts. We push technical boundaries, together. We re-invest in product innovation, and we empower our people to make a difference.

Where you’ll work…
You can be based at any one of our locations below;

Romsey: Alongside hybrid and flexible working options, you’ll find our Romsey site located within beautiful Hampshire countryside, close to the picturesque New Forest District and not far from a superb stretch of the south coast. This is no corporate concrete jungle; this is a manor house site, with ample parking an on-site gym and a driveway full of daffodils in the spring.

Woking: Alongside hybrid and flexible working options, you’ll find our Woking site in a modern building on the outskirts of London. Rated excellent for sustainability by BREEAM & Fitwel certified – you’ll feel better for visiting. This site provides key links to our customers in London, is a 5 minute walk from the train station, has secure parking nearby and dedicated cycle storage.

Gloucester: Alongside hybrid and flexible working options, you’ll find our Gloucester site in a business park two minutes from junction 11A of the M5; The site allows easy access to our local customer base. Set on the outskirts of the Cotswolds, you are never far from a picturesque view or lunch time walk.

The Benefits and Perks...  

Hybrid working: A minimum of 40% of your monthly hours working at your base/client location, subject to role requirements Flexi-time: Working hours to suit you and your life Annual bonus: Based on profit share and personal performance Private medical insurance: Includes cover for existing conditions Holiday: 25 days plus public holidays and your birthday off Chemring Share Save: Monthly savings into a 3 or 5 year plan.

Clearances…

Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve DV clearance. As a result, you should be a British Citizen and have resided in the for the last 10 years.

The Next Step...

Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.



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