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Lead Infrastructure EngineerShared Services Connected Ltd • Farnborough, GBR
Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Shared Services Connected Ltd • Farnborough, GBR
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Permanent
Job description

Are you a VMWare specialist with a background in InfrastructureEngineering at scale?

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace Defence and Security sector are currently on the lookout for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to support with a large scale project. The scope of the project is to build out a new environment for key clients in the defence sector following an “Automation first” mindset. In terms of skill set we would be looking for candidates with deep VMWare knowledge and experience with automation scripting and provisioning.

This role is working on site in Farnborough.

Due to the nature of the clients and sensitive projects, we are only able to progress with candidates eligible for DV clearance

What you’ll be doing:

  • Responsible for all aspects of VMware vSphere administration.
  • Management of ESXi hosts, vCenter, clusters, and resource pools.
  • Designing, deploying, and maintaining hyper‑converged storage environments
  • Automation: PowerCLI scripting, template creation, and automated provisioning

What you’ll bring:

  • VMware vSphere administration: Deep experience managing ESXi hosts, vCenter, clusters, and resource pools.
  • vSAN: Designing, deploying, and maintaining hyper‑converged storage environments.
  • HA/DRS configuration: Building resilient clusters with high availability, distributed resource scheduling, and failover planning.
  • VMware networking: Strong understanding of vSwitches, distributed switches, VLANs, port groups, and network segmentation
  • VMware Horizon: Experience with VDI environments, image management, and application delivery (desirable if relevant). Automation

If you’re interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Farnborough
Security Clearance Level: DV
Internal recruiter: Olly Walker
Salary: Up to £65,000
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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