Senior Systems Engineer

Hampshire, England, gb

Job summary

Our leading engineering and technology Defence and National Security client, is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join their growing team.

Key skills required for this role

Systems Engineering, IT, Microsoft, AWS, VMWare, RedHat

Important

Candidates must be able to attain security clearance - DV [Minimum 10 years permanent residency within UK]

Job description


As a Senior Systems Engineer for our client, you'll join an expanding Corporate Services IT department that supports mission-critical work completed by over 1000 end users across hundreds of servers. The unique nature of the business areas you and your team will support create complex and often time-critical demands to deliver effective, reliable, and enduring IT platforms across 'conventional' on-premise systems, cloud computing, and 'air-gapped' systems.

Our client is a leading technology and engineering company with clients spanning National Security, Defence, and Industry 4.0 through their Futures business and Intelligence as a Service. You will work alongside their customers to solve complex and unique challenges.

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you'll be understanding, maintaining, and developing specific aspects of an enterprise IT environment; encompassing tasks across technical design, implementation, and support.

Key Experience

  • Systems engineering experience at technical lead level with vendor technologies such as Microsoft, Amazon (AWS), VMWare, RedHat or similar.
  • Able to design, support, and maintain internal IT environments, platforms, and services at SME level or above.
  • Awareness of Defence or National Security IT standards, a background within these domains would be preferential; including within environments that operate at multiple classification levels.
  • Some exposure to Solution or Enterprise Architecture methods, you do not need to be a practitioner.

  • Key Technologies


    Below are some of the key enterprise IT technologies deployed at Roke, you do not need to be a specialist that covers all of these; training and support will be provided in time where required:

  • Corporate Microsoft Estate: 1000+ desktops and hundreds of servers deployed across various locations. This includes 'On-Prem' Microsoft full stack alongside 0365, Azure, and AWS offerings.
  • Cloud platforms: Primarily AWS and Azure covering organization design (layout), tenancy/account management, security, identity management, service provisioning, and reporting functions.
  • Identity and Directory services: Design, management, and maintenance of Microsoft Active Directory, OpenLDAP, KeyCloak, and Microsoft's enterprise Single Sign-On technologies.
  • Mobile device management: Covering 300+ deployed mobile devices, applying best practice and industry standards.
  • Cybersecurity and information assurance: Managing and maintaining intrusion detection apparatus, supporting queries/investigations, and hardened configuration of IT equipment.
  • DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering: Supporting enterprise software teams and their Ci/CD requirements using tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, or SonarQube, etc.
  • The Benefits and Perks

  • Hybrid working: A minimum of 40% of your monthly hours working at your base/client location, subject to role requirements.
  • Flexi-time: Working hours to suit you and your life.
  • Annual bonus: Based on profit share and personal performance.
  • Private medical insurance: Includes cover for existing conditions.
  • Holiday: 25 days plus public holidays and your birthday off.
  • Share Save: Monthly savings into a 3 or 5-year plan.

  • Clearances


    Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve DV clearance. As a result, you should be a British Citizen and have resided in the U.K. for the last 10 years.

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