2nd/3rd Line Platform Engineer – Xibis Ltd
Location: United Kingdom, England – South West, Bristol | Job ID: J1225-1452 | Employment Type: Full Time
Category: Infrastructure/Cloud
Position Description
This role provides advanced operational support, maintenance, and development of a Secure MOD Platform. The position involves working across a complex technical estate to ensure availability, stability, and capability enhancement of core infrastructure and services. The role is primarily based on-site at MOD Corsham.
Your Future Duties And Responsibilities
* Provide 2nd/3rd line technical support and engineering expertise for incident, problem, and change management across production and non-production environments, including out-of-hours escalation as required.
* Administer and troubleshoot Windows Server platforms (AD, GPO, DNS, DHCP, IIS, clustering) in large-scale virtualised environments.
* Conduct root cause analysis and resolution of complex platform issues.
* Maintain and enhance automation and deployment workflows using Ansible, CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GoCD), and platform-native automation tooling.
* Support Citrix and virtualised platforms such as VMware vSphere and vRealize Automation (vRA).
* Support Windows-based and Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Oracle v8+9) systems, including patching and configuration management.
* Monitor, maintain, and optimise system health, capacity, and performance using SCOM, Tripwire, and other enterprise monitoring and logging solutions.
* Collaborate with engineering functions to deliver reliable and secure services.
* Ensure systems are maintained in line with security, compliance, and accreditation requirements, supporting audits and vulnerability remediation activities.
* Produce and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
* Share knowledge and provide mentorship to junior team members.
Essential Skills & Experience
* Experience in 2nd/3rd line engineering within secure or Defence environments.
* Strong experience in Windows Server administration within enterprise environments.
* Proficiency in Citrix and VMware vSphere and vRealize Automation (vRA).
* Experience administering Active Directory environments, including Group Policy, trusts, and delegated administration.
* Experience with MECM (SCCM) or equivalent tooling for Windows patching and lifecycle management.
* Working knowledge of Linux systems (RHEL/Oracle).
* Skilled with monitoring tools such as SCOM.
* Knowledge of Git, Nexus, and CI/CD pipeline tools.
* Knowledge of Jumpboxes, AutoFS, and log rotation.
* Ability to communicate effectively with service owners, architects, and security stakeholders during incident and change activities.
Desirable Skills
* Experience with Galaxy, Foreman/Katello, or GoCD (or alternatives).
* Familiarity with Trend, Nessus, or other security scanning tools.
* Knowledge of firewall administration.
* Knowledge of Ansible for automation or similar tools.
* Knowledge of enterprise backup, restore and disaster recovery solutions.
* Awareness of trust relationships and secure enterprise architectures.
Skills
* Active Directory
* Citrix Netscaler
* Linux
What You Can Expect From Us
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because you are invited to be an owner from day 1, work collaboratively towards our Dream, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise. Your work creates value, enabling you to develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas.
We’ll support your professional growth with opportunities to deepen your skills, broaden your horizons, and ensure a healthy work environment backed by supportive leadership.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Software Development
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