Senior Systems Engineer

You:

Ideally we are looking for a Senior Engineer (3-5 years hands-on experience) who has the experience or desire to lean in to design/architecture. In this post you will remain hands-on initially but will be leaning into the design aspect of the infrastructure by aiding the CTO(s) with their high level designs (HLD). You should have a minimum of SC Clearance active.

Experience:

• Systems engineering experience at technical lead level with 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 Tools:

• Corporate Microsoft Estate: 1000+ desktops and hundreds of servers. This includes 'On-Prem' Microsoft full stack alongside 0365, Azure and AWS offerings.
• Cloud platforms: Primarily AWS and Azure covering organisation 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.
• Cyber security 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.