Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Gloucester
Employment Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Working Pattern: Onsite, 5 days per week

Copello is recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join a highly secure, technically advanced programme based in Gloucester.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced infrastructure professional to work on complex, mission-critical systems within a collaborative engineering environment. Due to the nature of the work, applicants must already hold eDV clearance.

The Role

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you'll play a key role in delivering, maintaining and supporting operational infrastructure across secure environments. You'll work closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams to design, implement and support robust infrastructure solutions throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform system administration, maintenance and backup activities.
• Investigate, troubleshoot and resolve issues relating to applications, networks and infrastructure services.
• Support the installation, configuration and ongoing maintenance of infrastructure components.
• Research and resolve complex system design and technical issues.
• Interpret technical requirements and translate them into effective infrastructure designs and implementations.
• Collaborate with project teams to deliver reliable, secure and scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and infrastructure best practices.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experience working within Agile, Scrum or DevOps delivery environments.
• Strong background as a Systems or Infrastructure Engineer on software-intensive programmes across the full engineering lifecycle.
• Good understanding of the design, deployment and support of large-scale information systems.
• Ability to take ownership of technical deliverables and work closely with project management to achieve successful outcomes.
• Strong Linux administration and deployment experience.
• Solid understanding of server, storage and desktop hardware technologies.

Desirable Skills

Experience with any of the following would be advantageous:

• Linux distributions including Red Hat and CentOS.
• Windows Server and Active Directory administration, including OU, user and group management.
• Model-based systems architecture or engineering frameworks (e.g. MODAF, TOGAF).
• Red Hat migrations.
• Network health monitoring and performance management.
• Concourse CI/CD (pipeline development and cluster administration).
• VMware vSphere ESXi.
• Atlassian toolset.
• Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and Ansible.
• Docker and Kubernetes.
• Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• Cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Helm.
• MongoDB.
• Enterprise-scale web application or service development.
• Apache Kafka.

Security Clearance

Due to the sensitive nature of this position, candidates must already hold Enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) clearance to be considered.

If you're looking to work on technically challenging programmes where your infrastructure expertise will make a real impact, we'd be pleased to hear from you.