Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description

Job title: Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Guildford

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary:  £50,000 to £55,000 dependant on experience

What you’ll be doing:

·       Manage wide ranging aspects of the product lifecycle enabling the product to meet the needs of customers/users and achieve financial or other targets

·       Carry out routine configuration, installation, and reconfiguration of infrastructure and related products

·       Develop and configures tools to enable automation of system administration tasks. Identify problems and issues and recommend corrective actions

·       Manage, assesses and analyses release components. Carries out the builds and tests in coordination with testers and component specialists maintaining and administering the tools and methods

·       Assist in the development of test scenarios to test that new/updated processes deliver improved ways of working for the end user at the same time as delivering efficiencies and planned business benefits

·       Undertake work within the area of specialism, taking account of interfaces and approved data; disseminating to others in order to resolve problems and proactively recommend improvements

·       Manage Incident & Problem management activity and will work on the most complex issues with no need for supervision or support

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

·       Experience and understanding in Linux – preferably Redhat/Alma/Centos7 and Ubuntu is advantageous

·       Experience and understanding in various automation techniques using Ansible and Powershell Terraform and Packer

·       Understanding of security hardening and CIS Hardening techniques and best practices

Desirable

·       Trained  to ITIL foundation

·       Experience and understanding on how to install, administration and support of VMware vSphere, Horizon, vROPS

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Desktop Engineering team:

Working within the Infrastructure Engineering within our Shared Service business unit.  You will be working with innovative technologies and modern infrastructure systems looking at building out the Digital Information environment into the cloud for the whole of BAE Systems.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 3^rd October 2023

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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