Senior Infrastructure Analyst

weServed; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and Aviva DigiCare+

Employee share scheme

Discount shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for Reservists

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Analyst in Stoke Gifford with hybrid working. The role supports and maintains critical IT infrastructure across defence operations, including VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and Linux environments.

You will work with enterprise-scale technologies, contribute to service improvements, and help ensure security and resilience while aligning with national security requirements. This is a full-time, permanent position with hybrid arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting infrastructure in complex enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of Microsoft technologies (Exchange, SCCM) and monitoring systems.
• Experience building, supporting and upgrading server infrastructure.
• Experience supporting Citrix desktop and application environments.
• Experience with VMware, Windows Server and Linux, plus networking, switches and firewalls.

Responsibilities

• Support infrastructure applications and services within enterprise environments.
• Manage and monitor server hardware, software and virtualised infrastructure.
• Install, configure and upgrade infrastructure applications throughout their lifecycle.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and implement service improvements.
• Collaborate with teams, customers and stakeholders to meet service levels.

Job description

Your Role

An IT Support Specialist is an advanced-level technical or operational role in the IT Support and Delivery discipline of the IT and Digital role family. This role undertakes complex technical or operating activities within this discipline. Requires specialised skills and training - at NVQ or SVQ level 3 or greater - and will work under a limited degree of supervision from a Front Line Manager to complete non-routine tasks and activities. May act as an informal resource for junior colleagues

Job Title: Senior Infrastructure Analyst

Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £44,600 – £55,800 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76718

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Infrastructure Analyst at our Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role

As a Senior Infrastructure Analyst, you’ll be at the heart of supporting and maintaining critical IT infrastructure that underpins defence operations across submarines, Ministry of Defence sites and secure data centres. Working as part of a specialist infrastructure team, you'll provide expert technical support across server, network, virtualisation and application environments, ensuring essential services remain available, secure and resilient.

Day-to-day, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to work with enterprise-scale technologies including VMware, Citrix, Microsoft infrastructure, Linux environments and core networking systems. You'll have the chance to develop your technical expertise, influence service improvements and contribute to projects that support national security and defence capability.

• Supporting critical infrastructure applications, services and data centre environments.
• Managing, monitoring and maintaining server hardware, software and virtualised infrastructure.
• Installing, configuring and upgrading infrastructure applications and services throughout their lifecycle.
• Troubleshooting complex technical issues and implementing service improvements to enhance performance and availability.
• Collaborating with technical teams, customers and stakeholders to deliver agreed service levels and operational excellence.

This role is full time, 35 hours week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 4 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the Senior Infrastructure Analyst

• Experience supporting infrastructure applications and services within complex enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of Microsoft and infrastructure technologies such as Exchange, SCCM, monitoring and systems management platforms.
• Experience building, supporting and upgrading server infrastructure.
• Experience supporting Citrix desktop and application environments.
• Experience supporting VMware, Windows Server and Linux operating systems, alongside networking, switching and firewall technologies.

Qualifications for the Senior Infrastructure Analyst

Essential:

• Demonstrable professional experience in IT Infrastructure, Systems Administration, Infrastructure Support or a related technical discipline.

Desirable:

• Professional certifications in Infrastructure, Microsoft, VMware, Networking or related technologies.
• Relevant industry accreditations supporting enterprise infrastructure management and support.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident, committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 24/11/2026

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