Identity Services Engineer in Farnborough

Are you looking for a new Engineering role using Active Directory and Windows technology? Sopra Steria’s Aerospace Defence and Security sector are looking for their next Infrastructure Engineering hire working within a growing team providing unique services to a client within the defence sector. This role will place you at the heart of the account working in the identity services team leveraging Active Directory to ensure that the domain, certification and federation services are secure, scalable, resilient and optimised to meet operational business needs. This area of the business offers huge scope to progress so if you’re looking for an opportunity to develop then this one may be for you. This role would be based on site in the office in Farnborough. Due to the nature of the projects we are working on, we are only able to progress with candidates eligible for DV clearance.

What you’ll be doing:

• "Water and Feed" several domains in a multi-tenancy private cloud environment with an automation-first mindset
• Help support the implementation of Identity and access management strategies ensuring alignment to governance
• Assisting in diagnosing and resolving technical issues and problems within the scope of the Identity Services function and adjacent technologies that may form the overarching identity solution and strategy of the Platform
• Support the technical aspects of formal change control processes and related activities.
• Support the Engineering Leadership and the Technical and Solution Architecture teams by researching recommended practices and evaluating approved and emerging technologies.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience in an Infrastructure, Networking or IT Support environment
• Expertise using Active Directory, PKI and Identity and Access Management
• General Infrastructure experience covering administration, fault finding/diagnosis and fix.
• Understanding of Automation
• Good stakeholder management skills

It would be great if you had:

• Experience working in the defence sector

If you’re interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Farnborough

Security Clearance Level: DV

Salary: Competitive, based on experience

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension. Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.