Infrastructure Engineer

Babcock; Preston; On-site; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain IT infrastructure while providing support on Windows and Linux platforms. The role involves working on network architecture and virtualisation, delivering new capabilities, and maintaining performance. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in both Windows and Linux systems, along with experience in various IT administration applications.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and wellbeing benefits

Shopping discounts

Green car scheme

Private health plans

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Install, configure & support both Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Extensive understanding of network architecture, specifically PaloAlto.
• Proficient in VMware (vCenter/ESXi, vSAN, NSX, Horizon).

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain the organization's IT infrastructure.
• Support business Infrastructure using Windows and Linux platforms.
• Administer a virtualised production environment using common industry toolsets.

Skills

Windows operating systems

Linux operating systems

Network architecture

VMware

IT administration

Virtualisation

Cloud platforms

Job description

Job title: Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Warton

Salary: Circa £45,000 dependent on experience

What you'll be doing:

• Providing support with the business Infrastructure - using Windows and Linux platforms
• Design, deploy, and maintain the organization's IT infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking, and security systems
• Use infrastructure hosting experience to physically install, configure and deploy IT hardware
• Researching problems and issues, gather information from a range of physical and informational sources, review defects on platform or assembly to gain a complete understanding of the problem and all relevant circumstances
• Administering a virtualised production environment using common industry toolsets

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Install, configure & support both Windows and Linux operating systems
• Extensive understanding of network architecture (PaloAlto in the main)
• Proficient in VMware (vCenter/ESXi, vSAN, NSX, Horizon) - Installing, patching, maintenance
• Knowledge of VXRail infrastructure
• The successful candidate will also have experience with a variety of IT administration & management applications
• Administration of virtualisation and cloud platforms (Citrix and Thin client technologies)

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Infrastructure Engineer Team:

You will have responsibility for delivering new enabling capabilities, developing and delivering systems and services, resolving infrastructure support issues and maintaining, managing and optimising the overall performance and availability of the infrastructure. Customers are our internal engineering and product teams and we will work to bridge the gap between infrastructure and software development and drive efficiency through high levels of automation. Whilst technology-delivery is core to our role, so too is the appreciation of how we enable the business and service availability.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 16th June 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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