Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Sopra Steria - UK; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is looking for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer in Farnborough, UK. The role involves designing, deploying, and configuring multi-site VDI farms using VMware technologies. Candidates should possess a technical diploma or VMware certification, and experience with virtualization infrastructures. The position is office-based with limited remote options, and eligibility for DV Clearance is required. A referral bonus of £1500 is also offered.

Benefits

Referral Bonus of £1500.00

Qualifications

• Eligible for DV Clearance.
• Skilled in designing multi-site VDI Farms.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive EUC services workstream tasks.
• Design multi-site VDI farms using VMware Horizon.
• Produce design artifacts for virtualization services.
• Develop third-party supplier relationships.

Skills

Designing and deployment of multi-site VDI Farms

VMware vCenter

ESXi

Horizon View

Unified Access Gateway

Dynamic Environment Manager

Gold Image Management

AppVolumes Management

CIS Benchmarks

NSX-T

Networking knowledge

Education

Vocational/Diploma/Associate Degree in a technical field or relevant VMware certification

Job description

We have a very exciting, large Project that is based in our new Farnborough site. This is for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer, proficient in VMware and VMware Horizon Design to design, deploy, configure and maintain the EUC components of a Wintel and VMware-based multi-tenant / multi-datacentre platform, utilising VMware Horizon. If you can take charge of all aspects of design, are hands on and want a new challenge, it's all happening here, right now.

Office based in Farnborough with limited options to work from home.

You do need to be eligible for DV Clearance for this great role.

What you will be doing:

• Drive the direction of all tasks allocated to the EUC services workstream.
• Responsible for design of multi-site / Mutli-Tenancy VDI Farms using VMware Horizon View and related technologies.
• Produce and maintain design artefacts, such Low-Level Designs, Release Notes, Vitrualisation Services related fail-over / disaster recovery instruction.
• Detail the build process, new procedures and review/update.
• Be the main point of contact for all virtualisation related matters.
• Lead all aspects of VDI Services deployments through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to test and reference, through to the important production systems.
• Analyse, tackle and correct issues; performing problem resolution end-to-end.
• Attend Client facing meetings.
• Develop and maintain third party supplier relationships.
• Provide regular updates to the Technical and project leadership about every facet of Virtualisation Services delivery.
• Intensify any issues, which may impact the delivery of the Virtulisation Services components.

What You'll bring:

• Vocational/Diploma/Associate Degree (technical field) or relevant VMware certification or relevant experience with as a VMware Horizon Design Engineer.
• Skilled in designing and deployment of multi-site, VDI Farms utilising VMware vCenter, ESXi and Horizon View VDI (Connection Servers + Desktop Pools), plus the following technologies:
• Unified Access Gateway.
• Dynamic Environment Manager (Roaming profiles / user setting retention).
• Gold Image Management.
• AppVolumes Management + Application Management.
• Experience with the hardening of Virtualisation Infrastructures using CIS Benchmarks or NIST SP 800-53 controls.
• Experienced with build alongside the implementation of the failover and disaster recovery of Virtualisation services.
• Experience of certificate management as relates to VMware virtualisation.
• Used to working in Multi-Datacentre Environments where availability, resilience and fault tolerance are key elements of every design.
• Have a good understanding of networking as relates to VMware virtual networking and how the virtual networking interoperates with physical networking, including experience of implementing and configuring NSX-T.
• Good written, communication, fixing and analytical skills.

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!

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Clearance: Eligible for DV Clearance

Referral Bonus: £1500.00

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.