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Roke Manor Research Limited
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Romsey, United Kingdom
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Job Reference:
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Posted:
19.08.2025
Expiry Date:
03.10.2025
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Job Description:
About Roke
Roke is a world-class technology and engineering consultancy. Roke delivers advanced research, development services and products to high profile customers who come to Roke with varied and challenging problems to solve.
As our company grows, the corporate IT department is expanding. Our IT department supports the vital work, completed by over 1300 end users, delivered across our National Security, Defence and Intelligence business units. The unique nature of our business creates complex and often time-critical demands on Roke’s central services. Rising to meet complex challenges to build reliable, effective and enduring IT platforms is at the heart of our IT department’s strategy. we empower our Systems Engineers to challenge; improve and change how we operate. They are involved in the specification, design, development, implementation and operations of IT across the enterprise.
Roke has a broad and sophisticated IT estate that requires our Systems Engineers to apply, hone and gain experience in diverse fields from ‘conventional’ on-premises systems to cloud computing and ‘air gapped’ systems supplying diverse services to our customer base.
This is a FTC until the end of December 2025.
Job Purpose & Key Responsibilities
* Provision new and support existing physical and virtual server infrastructure as required, ensuring the principles of secure-by-design and automate-by-default are adhered-to for patching and updates
* Provision new and support existing network infrastructure as required
* Participate in and own tasks for current infrastructure projects as required
* Responsible for ongoing support of SCCM server including OSD/Task Sequence, patching of servers and workstations and software packaging
* Participate in current project to migrate laptop estate to Intune and actively contribute to the design, development and support of this environment
* Accountable for maintaining configuration documentation, participating in change management processes and supporting end user engineering tasks.
* Conduct data analysis and liaise with colleagues and stakeholders to design and implement solutions that mitigate security vulnerabilities, improve compliance efficiency and minimise working hours downtime.
* Support and mentor colleagues in the use of relevant technology packages and industry standard procedures.
* Conduct 3rd line support and troubleshooting as required
* Take initiative and look to implement improvements to existing practices where required
Required skills & Experience
* Experience of building, configuring and managing Windows Servers
* Sound understanding of TCP/IP networking and firewalls in a corporate environment and experience of managed switch administration, particularly HPE Aruba CX-OS
* Experience of Virtual server infrastructure such as VMware and Vsphere ideally in a hyperconverged environment
* Familiarity with Linux operating systems
* Understanding of methods of packaging applications and MSI/MSIX technology, including transforms
* Operating System Deployment (OSD), including tools such as SCCM plus experience of OS migrations (Windows 10 to Windows 11)
* SCCM, MECM and /InTune administration
* Microsoft Active Directory administration including Azure Active Directory & Group Policy Object (GPO) administration
* Experience of cloud infrastructure in services such as Azure or AWS would be advantageous
* Strong awareness of cyber security principles
* Experience of monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, Manage Engine or similar, as well as monitoring protocols such as SNMP
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a genuine enthusiasm towards IT service management
* Self-motivated with a can do attitude and comfortable working with ambiguity
* Always fully comply with Roke’s policies and procedures
* Undertake such other reasonable duties, commensurate with the job holder’s experience and qualifications, as may be required for the smooth operation of the business
Why should you join us
We have a competitive salary and access to a number of additional flexible benefits, which will cover Health and Wellbeing, Savings and Protection & Life, Leisure and Entertainment.
Roke has a great community of groups with shared interests. These enable people to share ideas and be passionate about tools, technologies & techniques, which interest them.
We are committed to a policy of Equal Opportunity, Diversity and Inclusion. Our working environment is friendly, creative and inclusive and support a diverse work-force and those with additional needs.
Security
Due to the nature of this position, we require you to be eligible to achieve SC clearance. As a result, you should be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years.
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