Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Sopra Steria; Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design and deploy enterprise hardware for a multi-site system in Hemel Hempstead. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with innovative technologies and a collaborative team, committed to continuous development and problem-solving.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Health cash plan

Life assurance

Pension

Generous flexible benefits fund

Qualifications

• Must hold current DV clearance.
• Strong experience with VMware technologies.
• Proven hands-on experience with Dell enterprise storage platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy enterprise hardware platforms.
• Create and maintain technical design artifacts.
• Act as the main point of contact for hardware-related matters.

Skills

VMware technologies

Dell enterprise storage

Storage array deployment

Secure-by-design principles

Enterprise hardware installations

Education

Active Developed Vetting (DV) clearance

Tools

PowerShell

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

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We’re looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our Platform Services team and lead the design and deployment of hardware for a greenfield multi-site enterprise system. This is a unique opportunity to work using innovative technologies and secure-by-design principles.

You’ll be part of a collaborative, technically skilled team that values precision, resilience, and innovation. We foster a culture that is both structured and flexible, prioritising problem-solving and continuous development.

This role is 100% office-based in Hemel Hempstead.

What you'll be doing:

• Designing and deploying enterprise hardware platforms using COTS server, storage, and networking technologies.
• Creating and maintaining technical design artefacts including Low-Level Designs and disaster recovery instructions.
• Acting as the main point of contact for all hardware and datacentre-related matters.
• Supporting deployments across multiple environments from development to production.
• Providing technical advice and cross-training to peers and team members.
  
  

What you’ll bring:

• Active Developed Vetting (DV) clearance.
• Strong experience with VMware technologies including vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
• Proven hands-on experience with Dell enterprise storage platforms.
• Expertise in storage array deployment, replication, and fault tolerance.
• Knowledge of secure-by-design principles and system hardening practices.
• Familiarity with security compliance frameworks such as STIG, NIST, or CIS.
• Skilled in enterprise hardware installations and cabling management.
  
  

It would be great if you had:

• Dell EMC or VMware certifications.
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools like PowerShell, Ansible, or Terraform.
• Familiarity with SCIDA regulations.
• Knowledge of container platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
  
  

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 Permanent.

Location: Hemel Hempstead.

Security Clearance Level: Must Hold current DV clearance.

Internal Recruiter: Annecia

Salary: up to £60,000 dependent on experience.

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, 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.

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.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.

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