Job Description
Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Defence IT Solutions
Location: Farnborough (Hybrid)
Salary: £70,000–£75,000 + excellent benefits
Clearance: Must be eligible for SC clearance
Looking to take your infrastructure expertise into high-impact defence and national security projects? This is a great opportunity for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join a fast-growing consultancy delivering innovative, secure IT solutions across public and private cloud environments. You’ll be working at the cutting edge of virtualisation, cloud and automation in a business where technical excellence and collaboration go hand-in-hand.
What you’ll be doing
1. Maintaining and improving multi-classification, virtualised and cloud-based environments
2. Leading Ubuntu upgrade and optimisation activity, mentoring junior engineers along the way
3. Supporting “secure by design” practices across projects and internal platforms
4. Providing infrastructure support across Office 365, Azure and hybrid cloud systems
5. Performing patching, hardening and monitoring to keep systems compliant and secure
6. Supporting Elastic upgrades, VMware and Openshift environments
7. Automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration (e.g. Ansible, PowerShell)
8. Triaging and resolving alerts, incidents and change requests in line with IT security policy
9. Sharing knowledge through documentation, training and supporting the wider team
What you’ll bring
10. Strong background in Windows Server (2016+) and Linux (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu)
11. Experience with VMware, Azure and networking fundamentals
12. EUD provisioning (Autopilot), patching and hardening experience
13. Understanding of SSO, secure environments and protective marking
14. Familiarity with automation tools (Ansible, PowerShell)
15. Desirable: Kubernetes, Terraform, Elastic, Nessus, HashiCorp Vault, Microsoft 365 administration, Agile ways of working
Why this role?
16. Work in a forward-looking consultancy solving some of the UK’s most complex IT and security challenges
17. Collaborate with a close-knit, expert team in a supportive culture that values continuous learning
18. Exposure to modern cloud, security and automation tools across varied projects
19. Hybrid working model from Farnborough HQ with flexibility built in
20. Competitive salary, strong benefits and career growth opportunities