Senior Platform Engineer

Shared Services Connected Ltd; Salisbury; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology service provider seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design and develop secure and highly available platforms in a hybrid working environment. You will be responsible for leveraging new technologies and providing technical support. Ideal candidates will have production experience with VMware technologies, strong networking knowledge, and automation skills. This position offers a competitive salary up to £65,000, a comprehensive benefits package, and requires eligibility for DV clearance.

Benefits

£5,400 car allowance

25 days annual leave

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Flexible benefits fund

Qualifications

• Production experience in enterprise scale environments with a technical leadership role.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools.
• Experience designing complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Research and leverage new technologies for secure deployments.
• Design and develop highly available platforms for critical services.
• Provide technical support and mentoring to other teams.

Skills

Broadcom/VMware technologies

Networks and protocols

Automation tooling and scripting

Microsoft and Linux Operating Systems

TCP/IP networking

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Are you a Senior Infrastructure Engineer looking for an exciting new opportunity? Sopra Steria’s Aerospace Defence and Security sector are currently on the lookout for individuals with a background in platform, infrastructure or DevOps for an exciting new project working within the MOD. You will be on the front line of designing and developing technical solutions that support a key client in the public sector. This role is an excellent platform for experienced individuals looking to hone their Infrastructure and Automation skills in a fast‑paced environment working on a truly unique project. You will have technical authority in this role which offers scope to work with industry‑standard technologies including public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure and OCI), automation and IaC tech (Ansible and Terraform) and containerisation.

This is a hybrid role based out of our office in Salisbury, you will be in the office 3 days a week on average.

Due to the nature of the client, we are only able to progress with candidates eligible and willing to go through the Developed Vetting (DV) clearance process.

What you'll be doing:

• Research and own new technologies and understand how they can be leveraged in our secure managed service deployments.
• Design and develop complex, secure and highly available platforms to run critical services.
• Understand and operate a DevSecOps approach to drive greater automation and efficiencies.
• Provide 3rd line technical support, mentoring and fault resolution to 1st/2nd line support teams.
• Design new capabilities, develop standards and best practices.
• Take ownership of complex problems and see them through to resolution.

What you’ll bring:

• Production experience working with Broadcom/VMware technologies in highly available enterprise scale environments in a technical leadership role.
• Strong understanding of networks and protocols and network security.
• Hands‑on experience developing and using automation tooling and scripting.
• Experience supporting the design of complex systems and contributing to high quality design documentation.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft and Linux Operating Systems and TCP/IP networking.
• Experience analysing operational data to understand the health of the infrastructure.

It would be great if you had:

• Network technologies (LAN, WAN, Cisco switching, Software defined networking, ForcePoint and Barracuda security products).
• Hybrid and multi‑cloud experience with Azure, AWS or OCI.
• Ansible or Aria automation tooling.
• Container technologies (Kubernetes, Tanzu).

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: Hybrid 3 days a week spent on site in Salisbury; Security Clearance Level: Eligible and willing to go through the DV clearance process; Internal Recruiter: Olly Walker; Salary: Up to £65,000; 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.