Sopra Steria Aerospace, Defence and National Security is growing.
We are building a team to address a new contract and new challenges. In the current climate, the opportunity to work improving services for the Armed Forces has never been more important or relevant. We will be running and transforming a service to ensure that it meets the demands and flexibility for the current environment - requiring innovation, creativity and a collaborative way of working with our customer.
If you are an Infrastructure Engineer looking to take the next step in your career or a Senior Infrastructure Engineer ready for a new challenge, this could be the right opportunity for you. We need someone who is mission focused and looking for an opportunity to make an impact and drive the success of one of our key accounts.
This is an office-based role, 5 days per week in either our Bristol or Newcastle locations.
What you will be doing:
- Design, implement, and maintain storage and server infrastructure in both a Microsoft Windows and Redhat Linux architecture.
- Provide expert guidance for the installation, configuration, and optimization of server hardware and software to ensure performance and availability is aligned and meets with operational agreements.
- Manage storage systems to ensure capacity, availability, and integrity requirements are aligned and meet with operational and service demand.
- Monitor server and storage performance, identifying bottlenecks and issues that impact the service and implement solutions to optimize performance.
- Server and Storage task automation management.
- Creating both high and low-level documentation detailing system design, auditing requirements, and compliance with MOD standards.
- Manage system availability across multiple data centres.
- Taking a lead role in server and storage incident responses, including troubleshooting, impact assessment root cause analysis and implementing to resolve problems in a timely manner.
What you will bring:
- Technical storage and server infrastructure skills in a secure enterprise environment, for example: Advanced Infrastructure skills covering administration, fault finding/diagnosis and fix, incident management and response coordination.
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft Server and Redhat Linux Operating system.
- Experience using the following storage and server technologies: HP Servers, HP Storage SAN/NAS, HP OneView, Server Automation, Operations Manager (OpenText), Pure Storage, SAN Fabric, Brocade/HP Switching.
- Knowledge of storage and server automation frameworks, technologies and toolsets.
- Scripting knowledge e.g. PowerShell, Bash and Python.
It would be great if you had:
- Experience of working in complex MOD secure environments.
- Experience of leading technical teams to complete project tasks.
- Strong stakeholder and communication skills.
- Accreditation to technical level or equivalent experience essential, and accreditation in another technology area preferred.
- An understanding of the Secure-by-Design principles, and an awareness of the relevant MOD Joint Service Publications i.e. JSP440, JSP604 and Defence Standards publications.
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, Permanent Location: Bristol or Newcastle - on-site 5 days a week Security Clearance Level: SC eligible or willing to obtain. Internal Recruiter: Lee Salary: up to £62,100 per annum Benefits: £5400 Car Allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance, Pension, and 3% (of basic salary) flexible benefits fund.
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 Verdica, 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 application.