Senior Monitoring Analyst in Farnborough

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Senior Monitoring Analyst at any of our main sites, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role: As a Senior Monitoring Analyst you will be responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise monitoring and vulnerability management solutions. Day-to-day, you’ll operate with a high degree of autonomy, ensuring proactive issue detection, performance optimisation, and integration of monitoring with incident and patch management workflows. Your responsibilities will include:

• Acting as a monitoring subject matter expert, influencing monitoring strategy, standards, and best practices across the organisation
• Maintaining tools such as SolarWinds, Splunk and Azure Monitor
• Continuously evaluating and recommending enhancements to monitoring toolsets, including emerging technologies and open-source platforms
• Leading cross-functional monitoring projects, including toolset upgrades, integrations, and service improvements
• Infrastructure maintenance i.e. Maintaining virtual server estates and system software as well as ensuring systems are secure, up-to-date, and available
• Using PowerShell or similar for basic automation tasks and coordinating and monitoring patching activities across infrastructure

Essential experience of the Senior Monitoring Analyst:

• Previous experience in monitoring enterprise IT environments
• The ability to manage multiple incidents simultaneously and lead efforts to resolve complex issues
• Previous experience scripting in PowerShell
• Extensive experience with patch management and vulnerability scanning tools
• Proven experience leading monitoring and observability projects across infrastructure, applications, and user experience domains
• The ability to correlate infrastructure metrics with business service performance

Essential qualifications for the Senior Monitoring Analyst: We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week based at any of our main UK locations.

Multi-Site: QinetiQ operates state-of-the-art facilities across the UK that focus on defence, security and technology innovation. These facilities enable QinetiQ to conduct a wide range of research, testing and development activities that support both military and civilian applications helping to advance technology and support national security.

Why Join QinetiQ? As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges. As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential.

Our Benefits:

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community

Our Recruitment Process: We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments. Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in. Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.