Senior Systems Engineer
Job Description
Job title: Senior Systems Engineer
Company: Sanderson Recruitment
Job description: Job Title Senior Systems Engineer
Sector Government / Defence
Location Hampshire
Type Permanent
Salary £50000-£60000 Security Clearance BonusesYou:Ideally we are looking for a Senior Engineer (3-5 years hands-on experience) who has the experience or desire to lean in to deisng/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.
Expected salary: £50000 – 60000 per year
Location: Hampshire
