- Location
- Cheltenham
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Vincere
Description
Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Somerset - Highest Security Clearance Needed - £600 P/Day Outside IR35
We’re working with a specialist digital innovation partner delivering secure, mission-critical technology to Defence and National Security organisations. You’ll join a team tackling complex infrastructure challenges across highly secure environments, working alongside engineers, architects and delivery specialists.
The Role
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll help design, build and deliver secure digital solutions supporting critical operations.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Configuring and hardening Cisco Nexus Leaf/Spine architectures for high-throughput, low-latency traffic.
- Initialising and presenting NetApp storage arrays, ensuring data-at-rest encryption is enforced.
- Building and hardening Hyper-V clusters supporting core services such as AD, DNS and PKI.
- Supporting the enablement and integration of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud environments.
- Initialising and managing HSM/KMS appliances, including leading key ceremonies within high-assurance environments.
- Carrying out professional rack-and-stack and secure cabling in accordance with high physical-security standards.
What We’re Looking For
We’re particularly interested in engineers with experience across:
- Cisco Nexus or equivalent networking technologies.
- NetApp ONTAP or equivalent enterprise storage.
- Deploying Hyper-V in high-availability, high-security environments.
- VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 5+).
- Hardware-based cryptographic systems such as HSM/KMS.
- Windows Server 2022/2025.
- Secure infrastructure environments and physical infrastructure builds.
Security Clearance
Due to the secure nature of the role and working environment, candidates must hold the highest level of UK Security Clearance.
Engineer with a strong background in secure enterprise infrastructure and are interested in working on mission-critical technology, get in touch to find out more.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Somerset - Highest Security Clearance Needed - £600 P/Day Outside IR35
