Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Sopra Steria - UK; Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for their Platform Services team in Hemel Hempstead. This role involves designing and deploying hardware for a greenfield enterprise system, working with innovative technologies while adhering to secure-by-design principles. The company prioritizes a culture of collaboration, precision, and continuous development, with opportunities for flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Active Developed Vetting (DV) clearance required.
• Extensive experience with VMware (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter).
• Proficient in storage array deployment and fault tolerance.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy enterprise hardware platforms.
• Create technical design artefacts and disaster recovery plans.
• Act as point of contact for hardware and datacentre matters.

Skills

VMware technologies

Dell enterprise storage platforms

Technical design creation

Secure-by-design principles

Enterprise hardware installations

Cabling management

Tools

PowerShell

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

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 will 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!

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.