Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Sopra Steria; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Health cash plan

Life assurance

Pension

Job summary

Sopra Steria's Aerospace Defence and Security sector seeks a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to support a large-scale defence project in Farnborough. The role centers on an Automation-first mindset, with deep VMware expertise and automation scripting for provisioning.

You will lead VMware vSphere administration, design hyper-converged storage with vSAN, and build resilient clusters with HA/DRS, applying automation wherever possible. On-site role with DV clearance eligibility.

Qualifications

• Deep VMware vSphere administration experience across ESXi hosts, vCenter, clusters and resource pools.
• vSAN design, deployment and maintenance for hyper-converged storage.
• HA/DRS configuration with high availability, DRS and failover planning.
• VMware networking including vSwitches, distributed switches, VLANs & port groups; Horizon/VDI experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all aspects of VMware vSphere administration.
• Management of ESXi hosts, vCenter, clusters and resource pools.
• Design, deploy and maintain hyper-converged storage with vSAN.
• Automation: PowerCLI scripting, templates and automated provisioning.

Skills

VMware vSphere

Automation scripting

VMware networking

HA/DRS configuration

VDI / Horizon

Tools

PowerCLI

vCenter

ESXi

VMware Horizon

Job description

Are you a VMWare specialist with a background in Infrastructure Engineering at scale?

Sopra Steria's Aerospace Defence and Security sector are currently on the lookout for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to support with a large scale project. The scope of the project is to build out a new environment for key clients in the defence sector following an "Automation first" mindset. In terms of skill set we would be looking for candidates with deep VMWare knowledge and experience with automation scripting and provisioning.

This role is working on site in Farnborough.

Due to the nature of the clients and sensitive projects, we are only able to progress with candidates eligible for DV clearance

What you'll be doing:

• Responsible for all aspects of VMware vSphere administration.
• Management of ESXi hosts, vCenter, clusters, and resource pools.
• Designing, deploying, and maintaining hyper-converged storage environments
• Automation: PowerCLI scripting, template creation, and automated provisioning

What you'll bring:

• VMware vSphere administration: Deep experience managing ESXi hosts, vCenter, clusters, and resource pools.
• vSAN: Designing, deploying, and maintaining hyper-converged storage environments.
• HA/DRS configuration: Building resilient clusters with high availability, distributed resource scheduling, and failover planning.
• VMware networking: Strong understanding of vSwitches, distributed switches, VLANs, port groups, and network segmentation
• VMware Horizon: Experience with VDI environments, image management, and application delivery (desirable if relevant). Automation

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Farnborough
Security Clearance Level: DV
Internal recruiter: Olly Walker
Salary: Up to £65,000
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.

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.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

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 Vercida , 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.