Bristol
Join us as an IT infrastructure Solutions Specialist! Identify requirements for, design and deploy IT Infrastructure platforms in a secure mission‑critical environment. If you are an IT professional passionate about delivering innovative and robust IT solutions, your future is here!
Salary, Hours & Working Conditions
Salary: Up to £65,500 depending on experience.
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 37.5 hours, 5‑day week. Onsite 2 days a week or on business demand.
Security Clearance and Working Rights
Security Clearance: British Citizen. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. After offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo and attain HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS) and be managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team. Developed Vetting (DV) clearance is required for this role.
Benefits
* Company Bonus: up to 21% of base salary
* Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
* Flexible working: we welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
* Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave – enhancements available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
* Facilities: fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more
* Healthcare Cash Plan: option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more
Role Summary
Working within the Infrastructure Platforms team, you will be responsible for forming functional and non‑functional requirements, architecting and implementing solutions. You will manage relationships with suppliers and internal customers, serve as a technical consultant on operational issues and contribute to strategy. This is an exciting opportunity in a fast moving, unique, multi‑national IT function.
Responsibilities
* Form functional and non‑functional requirements for infrastructure solutions.
* Architect and implement IT infrastructure platforms in secure, mission‑critical environments.
* Manage supplier and internal customer relationships.
* Act as a technical consultant on operational issues.
* Contribute to strategy and continuous improvement initiatives.
Qualifications – Essential
* Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft technologies including Windows Server, clustering, Exchange, Active Directory, MECM/SCCM.
* Excellent knowledge of virtualisation technologies such as VMWare and Hyper‑V.
* Good understanding of Cloud Services such as Microsoft Azure and integration into on‑premise solutions.
* Proven skill in producing architectural and design documents such as high‑level and low‑level designs, specifications, and requirements.
* Strong experience in delivering IT projects.
* Strong analytical skills, applying a methodical data‑driven approach.
* Ability to work effectively in multi‑discipline, multi‑cultural and diverse teams.
* Ability to digest complex requirements and communicate solutions to varying levels of technical competency.
* Knowledge of automation and associated topics e.g. Ansible, Desired State Configuration, Azure Automation, PowerShell for deployment, patching and config management.
Qualifications – Desired
* Understanding of best practices in a high‑security, multi‑network environment typical in the defence industry.
* Experience working with database infrastructure for platforms such as SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle.
* Experience with HPC workloads on Windows.
* Experience with infrastructure platform monitoring tools such as Dynatrace.
Equity and Inclusion
We recognise that everyone is unique and encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.
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