Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Sopra Steria Ltd; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology solutions provider seeks a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design and maintain VMware-based multi-tenant platforms. This role requires expertise in VMware Horizon, managing deployments across various environments, and addressing virtualisation service issues. Located in Farnborough, the position offers a competitive salary up to £65K, along with excellent benefits including 25 days of annual leave and a £5400 car allowance. Candidates must be eligible for DV Clearance.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Single private health cover

Life assurance

Pension

Generous flexible benefits fund

£5400 car allowance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with VMware Horizon and related technologies.
• Eligible for DV Clearance for this role.
• Experience with failover and disaster recovery of virtualisation services.

Responsibilities

• Drive the direction of tasks in the EUC services workstream.
• Responsible for design of multi-site VDI Farms using VMware Horizon.
• Lead deployments through multiple product lifecycle environments.
• Develop and maintain third party supplier relationships.

Skills

VMware Horizon Design

Multi-site VDI Farm Design

Problem resolution

Network understanding

Analytical skills

Education

Vocational/Diploma/Associate Degree or VMware certification

Tools

VMware vCenter

ESXi

Unified Access Gateway

Cisco-based network services

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.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience with the design and build of client devices, such as Thin / Zero / Thick clients with Windows or Linux-based Operating Systems, such as Windows 11 or BeCrypt Paradox.
• Experience of supporting Microsoft Windows Server services, such as Active Directory (AD), Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Active Directory File Service (AD FS).
• Experience of Cisco-based network services.
• Experience of Micorosoft implementations of DNS and DHCP technologies.
• Knowledge of Network Attached Storage, block and file solutions as relates to provisioning for virtualisation.
• Technical Infrastructure skill in an enterprise environment, for example: Advanced Infrastructure skills covering administration, fault finding and diagnosis.
• Have a good understanding of MOD or HMG 'Secure by Design' principles and practices.

Employment Information

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Office based in Farnborough

Security Clearance Level: Eligible for DV Clearance

Internal Recruiter: Jane

Salary: To £65K Depending on experience.

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy extra days, single private health cover, life assurance, pension, generous flexible benefits fund and £5400 car allowance.

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.

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!