Senior Engineer - End User

Sopra Steria Ltd; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the Aerospace, Defence and Security sector seeks experienced Senior Engineers. Candidates should have expertise in VMware technologies and a solid understanding of VDI management. This role involves designing and maintaining computing solutions, with a focus on automation and efficiency. Flexibility in work arrangements is supported to promote work-life balance.

Benefits

£5,400 car allowance

25 days annual leave

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Generous flexible benefits fund

Qualifications

• Strong technical skills in VDI management.
• Ability to design, implement, and maintain end-user computing solutions.
• Experience with automation using Ansible and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement VDI solutions for a new Managed Service.
• Utilize VMware technologies to enhance infrastructure efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with security best practices.

Skills

VMware Horizon

Windows 11

Scripting

Education

VMware related qualifications

Tools

NetIQ

PowerShell

Job description

We are seeking a number of experienced Senior Engineers with specialised expertise in VMware Horizon, Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM), App Volumes, Windows 11, Unified Access Gateway (UAG), Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), and NetIQ.

The ideal candidate will possess strong technical skills in VDI management within a scalable environment and demonstrate the ability to design, implement, and maintain end-user computing solutions.

Sopra Steria is developing a new Managed Service to replace a complex legacy Enterprise infrastructure. This will require a high level of automation and repeatable component design patterns to allow the deployment of customer business solutions within short time frames. The project will make heavy use of Windows and VMware technologies, along with Ansible, Terraform and Scripting supported by niche infrastructure and applications.

What you’ll bring:

VMware Horizon & UAG.

VMware Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM).

App Volumes.

Windows 11 (including CIS L2 policies, base/gold image deployments).

It would be great if you had:

NetIQ Identity Access Management.

PowerShell, scripting, and automation.

Security Best Practices / Secure by Design.

VMware related qualifications.

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: Permanent
Location: Farnborough – 5 days per week
Security Clearance Level: SC cleared minimum, must be eligible for DV
Internal Recruiter: Lee
Salary: £70,000-80,000 per annum
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.

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Our Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions that bring clients enduring business value across the UK’s Public and Private sectors. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported, delivering exceptional rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.