Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Sopra Steria; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Greater London is seeking a VMware Horizon Design Engineer to drive VDI Services deployments. The role involves designing multi-site VDI Farms, hardening virtual infrastructures, and leading multiple product lifecycle environments. The ideal candidate will have experience in VMware technologies, strong networking skills, and a technical degree or certification. This position offers a competitive salary of up to £65K and a range of benefits including private health cover and a generous leave policy.

Benefits

25 days annual leave with the choice to buy extra days

Single private health cover

Life assurance

Pension

Generous flexible benefits fund

£5400 car allowance

Qualifications

• Skilled in designing and deploying multi-site VDI Farms.
• Experience with hardening virtual infrastructures using CIS Benchmarks.
• Used to working in Multi-Datacentre Environments.

Responsibilities

• Drive the direction of tasks allocated to EUC services workstream.
• Lead all aspects of VDI Services deployments.
• Provide updates to the Technical and project leadership.

Skills

Designing and deploying multi-site VDI Farms

Experience with VMware vCenter, ESXi, and Horizon View

Good understanding of networking with VMware virtual networking

Good written and communication skills

Education

Vocational / Diploma / Associate Degree in technical field

Relevant VMware certification or significant experience

Tools

VMware Horizon

NSX-T

Job description

What you will be doing

• Drive the direction of all tasks allocated to the EUC services workstream.
• Responsible for design of multi-site / Multi-Tenancy VDI Farms using VMware Horizon View and related technologies.
• Produce and maintain design artefacts, such as Low‑Level Designs, Release Notes, and Virtualisation 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 that may impact the delivery of the Virtualisation Services components.

What You'll bring

• Vocational / Diploma / Associate Degree (technical field) or relevant VMware certification, or relevant experience as a VMware Horizon Design Engineer.
• Skilled in designing and deploying multi‑site VDI Farms utilizing 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 hardening of Virtualisation Infrastructures using CIS Benchmarks or NIST SP 800‑53 controls
• Experienced with building alongside the implementation of the fail‑over 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
• 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 supporting Cisco‑based network services
• Experience of Microsoft 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
• Good understanding of MOD or HMG 'Secure by Design' principles and practices

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.

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Sopra Sterias 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 clients 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 UKs most complex safety- and security-critical markets.