Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Sopra Steria; Hemel Hempstead; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Health cash plan

Life assurance

Pension

Job summary

Sopra Steria seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our Strategic Digital Solutions team in a UK-wide hybrid role. You will act as a senior escalation point for endpoint management, automation and security, bridging operational support with infrastructure and engineering teams.

You will manage Intune/SCCM, Entra ID and Microsoft 365 services, develop automated deployments with PowerShell, and drive continuous improvement with ITIL-aligned processes. SC clearance is required.

Qualifications

• In-depth experience administering Microsoft Intune and SCCM/MECM, including endpoint management, application deployment, patching, and device policies.
• Strong knowledge of Mobile Device Management, Windows 10/11, Active Directory and Entra ID within enterprise environments.
• Experience packaging and deploying applications through endpoint management platforms to support software delivery and lifecycle management.
• Strong PowerShell scripting skills to automate tasks, improve operational efficiency and support deployment activities.
• Experience managing Windows Defender and third-party patching solutions, ensuring endpoint security, compliance and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience using enterprise service management tools such as ServiceNow and ITIL-based Incident, Problem and Change Management processes.

Responsibilities

• Resolving complex 3rd and 4th line incidents involving operating systems, endpoint hardware, and persistent software issues.
• Managing and maintaining endpoint management platforms including Intune, SCCM/MECM, and Group Policy.
• Supporting Microsoft 365 services including Entra ID, Exchange Online, OneDrive, and Teams.
• Creating and maintaining automated software deployments, operating system upgrades, and device imaging solutions using PowerShell and packaging tools.
• Monitoring endpoint security, device compliance, vulnerability remediation, and encryption standards.
• Conducting root cause analysis for recurring incidents and producing technical documentation and knowledge articles for support teams.

Skills

Intune

SCCM/MECM

PowerShell

Active Directory

Entra ID

Windows 10/11

Group Policy

ServiceNow

ITIL processes

Endpoint security

Tools

Microsoft Intune

SCCM/MECM

Job description

Are you an experienced infrastructure engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and acting as the escalation point for critical endpoint issues? Would you like to play a key role in supporting and improving enterprise device management services while working with modern Microsoft technologies?

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs, and training and development opportunities.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Strategic Digital Solutions team as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer. You will work within a BAU support team, providing advanced technical expertise across endpoint management, device lifecycle management, automation, and security. Acting as a senior escalation point, you'll bridge operational support teams with infrastructure and engineering functions, helping to resolve complex incidents while driving service improvements and maintaining high standards of customer service.

The role can be based anywhere in the UK; however, you must be able to travel to Hemel Hempstead when required. Travel requirements will vary depending on project and operational demands, ranging from 1 to 2 visits per month during quieter periods up to 4 days per week during particularly busy or sensitive projects.

What you'll be doing:

• Resolving complex 3rd and 4th line incidents involving operating systems, endpoint hardware, and persistent software issues.
• Managing and maintaining endpoint management platforms including Intune, SCCM/MECM, and Group Policy.
• Supporting Microsoft 365 services including Entra ID, Exchange Online, OneDrive, and Teams.
• Creating and maintaining automated software deployments, operating system upgrades, and device imaging solutions using PowerShell and packaging tools.
• Monitoring endpoint security, device compliance, vulnerability remediation, and encryption standards.
• Conducting root cause analysis for recurring incidents and producing technical documentation and knowledge articles for support teams.

What you'll bring:

• In-depth experience administering Microsoft Intune and SCCM/MECM, including endpoint management, application deployment, patching, and the creation, maintenance and optimisation of device policies and configurations.
• Strong knowledge of Mobile Device Management, Windows 10/11, Active Directory and Entra ID within enterprise environments.
• Experience packaging and deploying applications through endpoint management platforms to support software delivery and lifecycle management.
• Strong PowerShell scripting skills to automate tasks, improve operational efficiency and support deployment activities.
• Experience managing Windows, Microsoft Defender and third-party patching solutions, ensuring endpoint security, compliance and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience using enterprise service management tools such as ServiceNow and working within ITIL-based Incident, Problem and Change Management processes.

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.

Employment Type:

Full-time, Permanent.

Location:

UK Wide (Hybrid with travel to Hemel Hempstead as required).

Security Clearance Level:

SC.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days
• health cash plan
• life assurance
• pension

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With a long history of delivering transformation, we've developed a market-leading partnership ecosystem to provide business services of the future and shape valuable, positive outcomes for communities. We empower our clients by providing innovative solutions and commercial models that help them meet their business needs, drive operational efficiencies, and deliver impactful value creation. We remain committed to values of excellence, empathy and respect to produce transformative outcomes in business processing - creating value for all.

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.