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Senior Infrastructure Engineer

  • Hampshire
  • Permanent
  • £40000 - £65000 per annum

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Role Summary

We have an exciting new opportunity based in Portsmouth as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer. This is an opportunity to join an exciting, innovative technology and engineering company where their ‘mission’ is to deliver solutions that make a difference.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the planning, delivery and assurance of customer and in house work packages
  • Develop and implement policies, standards and procedures for Infrastructure engineering activity
  • Liaise with the customer on all Infrastructure risks and issues
  • Provide solutions and support to project requirements
  • Provide continuous improvement of Infrastructure engineering capabilities
  • Provide management, oversight, direction and guidance to project team members, through the planning and delivery of our projects
  • Produce essential project documents and internal work instructions
  • Provide Infrastructure engineering technical input into bid preparation and contracts

Key skills & qualifications

  • The ability to gain SC clearance (essential security requirement)
  • A willingness to gain DV clearance to allow you to work on a wider range of projects in the role
  • Hyper-V, VMWare certification or equivalent industry virtualization experience an advantage
  • Microsoft Certification (MCSE or equivalent) an advantage
  • HP Server and Workstation configuration and administration
  • Experience of Microsoft Windows Workstation and Server design, configuration, deployment, management and support; including windows infrastructure services, active directory, exchange server, backup, group policy and hardening etc.
  • Experience of infrastructure support, anti-virus and patching
  • Experience of the full engineering lifecycle; design/development, test and acceptance, configuration management, in service support
  • The ability to meet with customers, manage and build relationships
  • Willing to travel within the UK and overseas if required
  • Holder of a full UK driving licence, with the ability to travel, when required

Desirable Requirements:

  • A credible level of experience of Infrastructure engineering, preferably gained in the government / defence sector.
  • CompTIA, CCNA or networking certification, an desirable
  • Cyber and Security experience.
  • Server storage configuration
  • Firewall, routers configuration experience.
  • Linux administration and configuration
  • Web programming skills; Apache, IIS, HTML, JavaScript, stylesheets and PHP

What we’re looking for in you

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Well-developed analytical/ problem solving/ decision making skills.

Strong organisational skills who is adaptable in a fast-paced environment.

Stakeholder management skills.

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