Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Platforms

Sopra Steria Group; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 62,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Infrastructure Engineer to join their dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you will manage and maintain critical IT infrastructure, ensuring reliability and security across a range of Microsoft technologies. Your expertise in Active Directory, DNS, and virtualization will be essential as you contribute to ongoing transformation projects. The company values flexibility, offering various working arrangements to promote a healthy work-life balance. If you are passionate about technology and ready to make a significant impact, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

£5,400 car allowance

25 days annual leave

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Flexible benefits fund

Qualifications

• Experience in managing Active Directory and supporting Microsoft technologies.
• Strong understanding of storage, backup, and network security.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain Active Directory and related services.
• Support infrastructure services across various Microsoft platforms.
• Troubleshoot and resolve 2nd/3rd line infrastructure issues.

Skills

Active Directory

Microsoft Exchange

Office 365

Azure AD

DNS

DHCP

Linux technologies

Network security

TCP/IP networking

Virtualization (Broadcom/VMware)

Tools

WSUS

SCCM/MECM

Job description

Do you want to work in an environment where science and technology is at the forefront of safeguarding the UK?

We're looking for a skilled Infrastructure Engineer with a deep understanding of Active Directory and a solid background in supporting and maintaining a broad range of Microsoft technologies. You'll play a key role in ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of our IT infrastructure while contributing to ongoing transformation projects.

What you will be doing:

• Manage and maintain Active Directory, including Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, and OU structure.
• Support and enhance infrastructure services across Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, and Azure AD.
• Implement and support patching strategies using tools like WSUS or SCCM/MECM.
• Troubleshoot and resolve 2nd/3rd line infrastructure issues.
• Monitor system performance and ensure high availability and security of systems.
• Participate in infrastructure upgrades, migrations, and project work.
• Contribute to documentation, change management, and process improvement initiatives.

What you will bring:

• Production experience working with Microsoft and or LINUX technologies across secure and highly available enterprise scale environments.
• Experience in DNS, PKI, Active Directory, DHCP and distributed file shares.
• Strong understanding of storage and backup technologies in physical and virtual environments.
• Working knowledge and hands-on experience building virtualisation capabilities using Broadcom/VMware technologies.
• Experience supporting the design of complex systems and contributing to high quality design documentation.
• Working knowledge of network security and TCP/IP networking.

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!

Employment Type: Full-time
Location: Salisbury OR Portsmouth
Security Clearance Level: To be eligible for Developed Vetting (DV)
Internal Recruiter: Carolyne
Salary: Up to £62k
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

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. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.