Senior Platform Engineer

Sopra Steria Ltd; Salisbury; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital solutions provider is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for a hybrid role based in Salisbury. This position involves designing and developing technical solutions for the MOD, driving automation and efficiencies with industry-standard technologies like AWS, Azure, Ansible, and Terraform. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in enterprise environments and be eligible for DV clearance. The role offers a salary up to £65,000 and various benefits including a car allowance and private medical insurance.

Benefits

£5,400 car allowance

25 days annual leave

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Flexible benefits fund

Qualifications

• Experience in working with Broadcom/VMware technologies in enterprise scale environments.
• Hands-on experience with automation tooling and scripting.
• Understanding of networks, protocols, and network security.

Responsibilities

• Research and own new technologies for secure deployments.
• Design complex and highly available platforms.
• Provide technical support and mentoring.

Skills

Production experience with Broadcom/VMware technologies

Network understanding and security

Automation tooling and scripting

High-quality design documentation

Microsoft and LINUX Operating Systems

Operational data analysis

Tools

Ansible

Tanzu

Kubernetes

Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

What 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.

About us

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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.