Junior Infrastructure Engineer

Are you an IT enthusiast looking for a platform to grow your career?

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace Defence and Security sector are currently recruiting for a Junior Infrastructure Engineer to join a growing team supporting a key client in the aerospace industry. This is a fantastic opportunity for candidates with a background in some area of IT looking to build a career working on complex infrastructures using modern, industry standard technologies. Ideally you will have some existing IT experience in Service Analysis or IT Support with a passion for delivering high levels of service. If you are someone interested in a career supporting the design, maintenance and improvement of complex IT infrastructures across 3 UK sites.

This role will be initially based out of our office in Newport with some flexibility for hybrid working as you learn and develop.

Due to our contractual agreement with the client, we are only able to progress with candidates eligible for SC clearance.

What you’ll be doing:

• Assist the infrastructure team, managing incidents, requests, changes and problems.
• Actively monitor infrastructure health, performance, and availability using monitoring tools.
• Administer systems based on Windows (Virtual and Physical), ensuring high availability and performance.
• Support server environments and estates, including patching for Windows, VMWare and Citrix.
• Maintenance and production of technical documentation to facilitate knowledge share and skills development.

What you’ll bring:

• A basic understanding of On Prem IT Infrastructure.
• Some experience or familiarity with Windows Servers, VMware, or similar virtualisation.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills, critical for coordinating with multi-site teams.
• Passionate about building a career within Infrastructure, and IT systems management in a dynamic, multi-location environment.
• Customer focused environment.
• Self- motivated individual.

If you are 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: Newport Security Clearance Level: SC Internal Recruiter: Olly Walker Salary: Up to £28,000 Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, 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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Our Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions that bring clients enduring business value across the UK’s Public and Private sectors. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported, delivering exceptional rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

• A basic understanding of On Prem IT Infrastructure.
• Some experience or familiarity with Windows Servers, VMware, or similar virtualisation.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills, critical for coordinating with multi-site teams.
• Passionate about building a career within Infrastructure, and IT systems management in a dynamic, multi-location environment.
• Customer focused environment.
• Self- motivated individual.

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.

Our Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions that bring clients enduring business value across the UK’s Public and Private sectors. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported, delivering exceptional rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.