At a Glance
- Tasks: Support and manage enterprise applications in secure environments with hands-on engineering.
- Company: Join a leading defence organisation with a focus on innovation and security.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, hybrid working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities to work on complex technical programmes.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the UK MOD/Defence sector while enhancing your technical skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in application support within the UK MOD/Defence and current SC/DV clearance required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
We are seeking an experienced Applications Engineer with strong UK MOD/Defence experience to provide hands-on engineering support within a complex, secure enterprise environment. The successful candidate will support the design, deployment, configuration and lifecycle management of enterprise applications across secure environments, covering integration, testing, deployment and ongoing operational support.
Key Responsibilities
- Deploy, configure and support enterprise applications across Windows and/or Linux environments.
- Manage application lifecycle activities including installation, patching, upgrades and decommissioning.
- Integrate applications with enterprise services including Active Directory/LDAP, databases and networking.
- Configure and maintain development, test and production environments.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex application and integration issues.
- Apply secure-by-design principles to application deployment and configuration.
- Produce technical documentation including LLDs, build guides and operational runbooks.
- Support system integration, testing and validation.
- Work with Service Management teams to resolve incidents and service requests.
- Contribute to automation and standardisation of application deployment processes.
- Support operational handover and ongoing application stability.
Essential Experience
- Proven experience working within the UK MOD/Defence environment - essential.
- Strong experience in application installation, configuration and support within enterprise environments.
- Experience with Windows and/or Linux server environments.
- Knowledge of integrating applications with Active Directory, databases and web services.
- Experience supporting development, test and production environments.
- Understanding of application security and hardening.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Experience producing LLDs, build guides and technical runbooks.
- Experience working within large and complex technical programmes.
- Understanding of ITIL/service management principles.
- Current SC or DV clearance.
Desirable
- Experience with IIS, Apache, Tomcat or other middleware/application servers.
- PowerShell, Bash or other scripting/automation experience.
- Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices.
- Exposure to Docker/Kubernetes and containerised applications.
- Experience with Agile methodologies, Jira and Confluence.
- Relevant technical certifications or vendor training.
This role is suited to an Applications Engineer who has previously delivered application engineering and support within the MOD/Defence environment and is comfortable working in highly secure and complex technical environments.
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Contact Details:
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler Recruitment Team
