Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Working across a range of diverse, complex, and secure systems, as an Infrastructure Engineer Team Lead you will be technically capable, versatile, and accountable for leading a team while remaining a hands-on subject matter expert. You will provide senior technical leadership and line management, including day-to-day direction, coaching, mentoring, and support for team members, while continuing to contribute directly to complex infrastructure engineering activity. You will be able to work independently or as part of a wider team, depending on the size and complexity of the work, to deliver business value in a demanding and involved environment. You will be working as part of the Normal Change programme, supporting the development and sustainment of a government portfolio of systems and services.

Based primarily at our customer’s site near Huntingdon Cambridgeshire (4-5 days per week), you will lead a team responsible for infrastructure and application changes in an Agile environment, while remaining hands-on as an SME for complex technical delivery, troubleshooting, and assurance.

You will have a broad range of knowledge and experience in the deployment and configuration of services based upon Microsoft and VMware products, having deployed virtual infrastructure within vSphere, and within containers such as Tanzu Kubernetes, along with an extensive understanding and experience of associated Windows-based technologies. A working knowledge and understanding of Linux, as well as other common back-end technologies such as SQL Server, networking (CISCO, FORTINET), and storage (NetApp, Dell), with the flexibility and aptitude to learn other additional complementary technologies as required, is also desirable.

Occasional travel to other Leidos and customer sites may be required. Keeping an eye on the technology landscape is essential, too - identification of new and relevant technologies to solve problems and make improvements is part of the job. We believe innovation is the lifeblood of customer value - we are all catalysts for innovation and should be committed to continuous improvement in everything we do.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Experience of leading technical teams while remaining hands-on as a subject matter expert in infrastructure engineering.

• Experience of line management responsibilities, including objective setting, one-to-ones, performance support, coaching, mentoring, and career development.

• Ability to balance people leadership, technical governance, and direct hands-on delivery across complex infrastructure changes.

• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate technical issues and outcomes to a broad audience.

• Extensive experience of producing technical documentation to a high standard.

• Experience of working in security-cleared environments/working in Defence.

• Excellent knowledge of virtualisation platforms such as VMware vSphere.

• Excellent knowledge of VMware vSAN, NSX-T and VCF.

• Excellent knowledge of locking down environments.

• Excellent knowledge of Windows Server environments, from design to implementation and support, including:

• AD and GPO configuration

• DNS and DHCP

• Monitoring, Anti-Virus, and backup tooling.

• Good knowledge of Tanzu Kubernetes including the deployment and configuration of Kubernetes clusters and containerised workloads.

• Good knowledge of vSphere administration including cluster configuration, networking setup, and vSAN storage management.

• Good experience with VMware Cloud Foundation, SDDC including its architecture, deployment, and operational management.

• Good understanding of workload domain management including deployment, expansion, and lifecycle maintenance.

• Good knowledge of networking concepts including VLANs and NSX-T integration within a virtualized environment.

• Good knowledge of VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) for monitoring, automation, and optimization of cloud environments.

• Good troubleshooting skills in VMware Cloud Foundation environments including identification and resolution of complex infrastructure issues.

• Good general knowledge of Microsoft stack technologies such as MS SQL, MS System Centre, Office365, and CLI tooling such as PowerShell.

• Good general knowledge of TCP/IP and networking technologies including switches and firewalls.

• Working knowledge of Linux system administration skills (Red Hat / Ubuntu / CentOS).

• Working knowledge of application deployment via SCCM.

• Experience in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).

• Experience on Secure LAN environments including security boundaries and rulesets.

• Experience of software maintenance and support to include servers, workstations, laptops, network, and peripheral devices.

• Experience in the installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 10 and 11 workstations.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Microsoft and VMware Certifications.

• Agile Foundation & Practitioner Certifications

ADDITIONAL ATTRIBUTES:

• Comfortable leading and line managing a technical team, setting clear expectations, modelling professional behaviours, and coaching team members to grow their skills and competencies, while continuing to act as a hands-on SME.

• Confident in holding regular one-to-ones, supporting performance and development conversations, and creating an inclusive, accountable, and high-performing team culture.

• Analytical, with the ability to narrow down root cause and resolve complex problems.

• Have a growth mindset, seeking to learn and further one’s own skills and knowledge to tackle new and innovative technology and solutions.

• Proactive with a positive working attitude.

• Flexible and adaptable to change.

Clearance Requirements:

• Clearance for Role DV, UK National only.

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At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

• We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme

• Private Medical Insurance

• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)

• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

• Flexi-TIme