At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and enhance monitoring capabilities for private cloud hosting services.
- Company: Envitia, a leader in digital and software services with a mission to harness data.
- Benefits: 25 days annual leave, private healthcare, fitness reimbursement, and flexible work arrangements.
- Other info: Onsite in Corsham once a week with opportunities for career growth.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team making a real impact in defence and public sectors.
- Qualifications: Experience with VMware, Splunk, and scripting languages like Python or PowerShell.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Contract: Initially to 30/04/2027 IR35: Outside
Join the Growth Story at Envitia. Envitia is a digital and software services company that solves complex data challenges. Our mission is to empower organisations to harness the full potential of data to help build a better world. With deep technical expertise borne out of 35 years of geospatial data heritage, Envitia is a leading provider of consultancy, engineering, and software to help clients drive business impact from data. Our primary markets are in Defence, Public Sector, National Security and CNI.
The Role
We are recruiting for an Infrastructure Engineer (Service Monitoring) to join one of our major defence programmes. As part of the Engineering team, you will help design, deliver, and continually evolve the operational and monitoring capabilities that support our private cloud multi-tenant hosting services across multiple security classifications. The role focuses on enhancing the tools and platforms used to operate and monitor these environments, ensuring reliable and efficient service delivery. You will develop and improve operational tooling and monitoring solutions that strengthen service performance, increase visibility, and enhance the overall tenant experience. The role also involves creating improved support and alerting capabilities for both internal and external infrastructure teams, service providers, and tenants, enabling faster response times and more effective service management.
Job Responsibilities
- Enhance and provide new services to monitor existing private cloud multi-tenant hosting capabilities at multiple classifications.
- Provide operational level tooling and monitoring capabilities to enhance and improve service operations and tenant experience as well as provide enhanced support and alerting to internal and external infrastructure teams, service providers and tenants.
- System and network log collection and analysis - design, deploy, troubleshoot and manage to a 3rd line level.
- Deployment and management of Splunk with an application monitoring and alerting use case, also within a tenant specific application & security monitoring context.
- Experience in reviewing existing monitoring services, providing guidance on enhancing current services.
Skills Required
Industry Knowledge (Desirable)
- Experience delivering digital projects within the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) or central UK Government environments.
- Exposure to highly secure, operational, or air-gapped mission-critical environments.
Technical Expertise
- Proven operational experience supporting VMware Cloud Foundation in a production environment, including: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Operations for Logs.
- Experience working with Splunk, ideally including configuring or managing log forwarding to a central service provider.
- Knowledge of Splunk Query Language (SPL).
- Experience using regular expressions (Regex) for log parsing and analysis.
- Scripting and automation experience using Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
- Practical understanding of APIs and experience integrating or working with them.
- Strong technical curiosity and the ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies.
- Experience with security tooling such as Nessus and Tenable Security Center.
Security Clearance Requirements
The successful candidate must be eligible to go through a SC level security clearance, DV preferred.
Location
The role will be required to be onsite in Corsham 1 day a week, in addition to occasional travel to Portsmouth.
What it's like to work at Envitia
At Envitia, we believe that our greatest asset is our talented and dedicated team. We are committed to fostering a work environment where every employee feels valued, supported, and motivated to excel. As part of this commitment, we offer a comprehensive range of benefits designed to enhance both your professional and personal well-being.
- Annual Leave: 25 days plus your birthday off. You will have the ability to buy and sell 5 days holiday to work around your needs.
- Private Healthcare Coverage: Our health plan is tailored to meet the diverse needs of our employees with additional levels for family if required.
- Fitness Reimbursement: We encourage an active lifestyle. Our fitness reimbursement program helps you stay fit by covering a portion of your gym memberships or fitness-related expenses.
- Life Assurance: Gain peace of mind with extensive life insurance coverage that ensures financial protection for you and your loved ones.
- Pension Contribution: Plan for your future with our pension options. We provide resources and support to help you build a secure financial foundation.
- Perkbox Subscription: Enjoy exclusive discounts on a variety of products and services. From technology to entertainment, we've partnered with various businesses to bring you special perks.
- Flexible Work Arrangements: Achieve a better work-life balance and explore what flexible working arrangements we can provide for you. We understand the importance of accommodating personal commitments and offer options that suit your needs.
