Senior Infrastructure Engineer (6 month contract)
Based in Reading.
Offering £88ph Inside IR35.
Overview
As the Senior Infrastructure Engineer you will be working alongside a market‑leading Defence and Aerospace company that is constantly growing and developing. They seek new talent to further develop your skills and enable you to grow within the company and industry.
Responsibilities
* Act as the technical authority on one or more platform engineering domains (e.g. cloud, virtualisation, automation, networking or cyber tooling) providing specialist domain expertise to projects and programmes.
* Lead the design and implementation of secure platforms across on‑premise, hybrid and cloud environments.
* Capture, analyse and interpret complex customer requirements to drive system design and architecture.
* Develop high‑level and low‑level designs, ensuring alignment with secure‑by‑design principles.
* Take ownership of technical delivery within work packages, including planning, estimation and progress reporting.
* Mentor, coach and develop junior and senior engineers.
* Provide input to technology strategies, feasibility studies and innovation projects.
* Engage with internal and external stakeholders, presenting technical solutions and justifying design decisions.
Skillset
* Extensive technical expertise across multiple platform domains, with a track record of delivering secure solutions.
* Windows and Linux operating systems.
* Virtualisation platforms (VMware, Hyper‑V) and containerisation (Kubernetes, Docker).
* Networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, firewalls).
* Automation and scripting (e.g. PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform).
* Knowledge of cybersecurity controls and accreditation requirements.
* Expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform).
* Experience integrating enterprise services (Active Directory, PKI, monitoring, SIEM).
* Hands‑on use of DevSecOps tools and CI/CD pipelines.
* Industry certifications (VMware VCP, AWS Solutions Architect, Microsoft, Kubernetes, or equivalent).
How to Apply
If this all sounds like something you would be interested in, simply apply and we can discuss the opportunity further!
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