Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

6 month contract

Based in Reading

Offering £88ph Inside IR35

Do you have experience with virtualisation platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, etc.)?

Do you have experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.)?

Do you want to work with an industry-leading company?

If your answer to these is yes, then this could be the role for you!

As the Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will be working alongside a market-leading Defence and Aerospace company who are constantly growing and developing. They are always looking to bring on new talents such as yourself and further develop your skills to enable you to grow within the company and industry.

You will be involved in:

• 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

Your skillset may include:

• 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)

If this all sounds like something you will be interested in then simply apply and we can discuss the opportunity further!