At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and manage secure messaging platforms for national security operations.
- Company: Join a leading engineering team focused on mission-critical communication.
- Benefits: Up to £75,000 salary, car allowance, private medical insurance, and generous leave options.
- Other info: Ideal for candidates from defence or secure communications backgrounds.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in national security while advancing your technical skills.
- Qualifications: Experience with Microsoft Exchange and strong infrastructure knowledge required.
The predicted salary is between 75000 - 75000 £ per year.
Salary: £75,000 - 75,000 per year
Requirements
- Active eDV clearance
- Strong experience administering Microsoft Exchange On‑Premise environments
- Hands‑on experience with SharePoint Server Subscription Edition (SPSE)
- Experience supporting Skype for Business within enterprise environments
- Strong infrastructure knowledge, including administration, troubleshooting, clustering and hardware evaluation
- Experience working within highly governed environments with strict service level agreements
Desirable:
- Experience with X.400 messaging, particularly within military or highly secure environments
- Microsoft certifications, or equivalent, across messaging or infrastructure technologies
- Strong technical documentation skills, including operational procedures and user guidance
Responsibilities
- Design, build, configure and deploy secure on‑premise messaging and collaboration platforms
- Manage and support critical messaging infrastructure, ensuring high availability, resilience and performance
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues across messaging and infrastructure technologies
- Lead or contribute to technical project delivery within a structured governance framework
- Drive service improvements, operational efficiency and platform optimisation
- Support knowledge sharing and mentoring across the wider messaging team
Technologies
- Hardware Support
- Security
- SharePoint
We are hiring a Lead Messaging Engineer to join a highly secure engineering team delivering mission‑critical communication platforms that support national security operations. This is an on‑site role based in Cheltenham, offering a salary of up to £75,000 plus a car allowance and clearance bonus, along with benefits including an annual DV clearance retention bonus, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy up to 10 additional days, private medical insurance, and a 6% employer pension contribution. We work in a structured, highly regulated environment and welcome candidates from defence, military, or other secure communications backgrounds who want to broaden their expertise across a wider messaging capability.
