Infrastructure Engineering Specialist - Platform Engineer
Security Clearance: An Active DV (Developed Vetting) level of National Security clearance is absolutely mandatory for this role.
Location & Working Model: London — Onsite 5 days per week
Company & Team: Leading Communications Group
Pay Rate: £654 Per Day via Umbrella (Inside IR35)
About the Engineering Team
The Engineering division is a large, multi-disciplined "professional services" engineering practice. The team is organised into key customer-focused capabilities, each featuring sub-capability areas comprising single or multiple engineering delivery projects. Working from one of our dynamic London offices, your team will maintain and develop both bespoke and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) capabilities, working very closely with our customers across a wide variety of platforms and technology stacks.
Role Accountabilities
- Manages the implementation of high-level designs to create secure, stable network environments that meet the needs of the business, are shared with partners, and strictly comply with security, privacy, and audit requirements.
- Leads the maintenance of IT infrastructure tools and executes designs across network, security, compute, and storage domains in alignment with design standards.
- Provides advanced technical expertise to help resolve complex problems alongside managers, principals, and technical experts.
- Leads collaboration across cyber security, enterprise architecture, and application development teams to implement an effective product roadmap.
- Leads daily support for internal system health, tools, infrastructure projects, and customer support contracts.
- Leads collaboration with technical architects, using advanced technical knowledge to translate architectural designs directly into operational realities.
- Leads the installation, configuration, maintenance, optimisation, and support of software, hardware, and communication links.
Skills & Experience
You must possess a strong background operating in a DevOps environment and demonstrate robust technical and business acumen.
- Security Clearance: An Active DV (Developed Vetting) level of National Security clearance is absolutely mandatory for this role.
- Virtualisation & OS: Hands‑on experience with VMWare (ESX, VCentre, vCF), Containers, Kubernetes, VKS, NSX V&T, alongside Windows, Linux, or Mac Server system management.
- Scripting: Strong proficiency in scripting languages like Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Java.
- Automation & IaC: Mastery of infrastructure automation, orchestration, and automated builds using Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Foreman, Kickstart (including PXE), or Microsoft Deployment toolkits.
- Code Management: A robust configuration‑managed approach utilizing tools like Git or Subversion within continuous integration workflows.
- Storage: Understanding of deployment and configuration for network file sharing (NFS, SAMBA) and enterprise high‑availability storage platforms (EMC, Dell, or NetApp).
- Networking: Solid networking background, ideally including large‑scale platform configurations across campus and WAN topologies.
- Monitoring & Security: Experience configuring monitoring applications (Prometheus, Zabbix, SolarWinds, Nagios, OpenNMS, CheckMK) and security monitoring tooling (Elastic SIEM, Tenable).
If this sounds like you, please apply directly.
