Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Sopra Steria Limited; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Sopra Steria Limited's Aerospace Defence and Security sector is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to build a new environment for key defence clients in Farnborough, on site. The role emphasizes an 'Automation first' mindset and requires deep VMware expertise and automation scripting capabilities.

You will manage VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, and vSAN storage, design resilient clusters, and implement automated provisioning using PowerCLI.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in VMware vSphere administration including ESXi, vCenter, clusters and resource pools.
• Design and maintain hyper-converged storage with vSAN.
• Configure high availability and DRS for resilient clusters.
• Strong understanding of vSwitches, distributed switches, VLANs and port groups.
• Experience with Horizon/VDI environments is a bonus.

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

ESXi / vCenter

Automation scripting

HA/DRS configuration

VMware Horizon

Tools

PowerCLI

vSAN design/deployment

Job description

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

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.

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.