Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Sopra Steria Ltd; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 65,000; 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 business seeks a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to support a large scale project in Farnborough, with an “Automation first” mindset. The role requires deep VMware expertise and automation scripting for provisioning.

You will work on‑site in Farnborough; DV clearance eligibility is required due to sensitive clients. Salary up to £65,000 with valuable benefits and flexible working options.

Qualifications

• Deep VMware knowledge with automation scripting and provisioning.
• Experience managing ESXi hosts, vCenter, clusters, and resource pools.
• Knowledge of hyper-converged storage and VDI environments.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

VMware vSphere

vSAN

HA/DRS

VMware Networking

VMware Horizon

Automation (PowerCLI)

Tools

PowerCLI

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 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.

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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.