Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Join the SiXworks Revolution as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer!

We are a small, thriving company based in Farnborough, delivering proofs of concept and high quality, focused IT consultancy.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our team in Farnborough.

Essential Skills and Qualities

• Team Player
• Windows Server 2016+ administration.
• RedHat Openshift
• Linux (CentOS/RedHat/Ubuntu)
• EUD provisioning (Autopilot), maintenance, patching and hardening.
• SSO - concepts and operation.
• Understanding of working in protectively marked environments.
• VMware
• Azure
• Networking
• Automation (scripting ansible/powershell)

Desirable skills:

• Kubernetes administration e.g. VMware TKGI
• VMware vSphere/vCenter/VCF.
• Azure/Microsoft 365 administration.
• DevSecOps Tooling
• Elastic
• Nessus
• Application Packaging
• HashiCorp Terraform
• HashiCorp Vault
• Experience working in Agile sprints

Responsibilities likely to include:

• Maintain, improve, and secure SiXworks' multi-classification, virtualised, collaboration and development environments.
• Lead ubuntu upgrade and optimisation activity across our range of development and live environments, including enhancing the linus skills and experience of junior team members.
• Work with IT infrastructure colleagues to improve SiXworks' 'Secure by Design' capabilities, internally and across its projects.
• Provide Infrastructure support to SiXworks' public cloud SaaS offerings (Office 365) as well as project-based systems (public, private and hybrid clouds) in implementation and support lifecycles.
• Support Elastic upgrade and optimisation activity.
• Perform maintenance tasks on the infrastructure through change control.
• Assist with monitoring and management of SiXworks' and project-based ticketing and alerting systems for new changes and security alerts.
• Triage monitoring alerts and perform appropriate action.
• Maintain monitoring components in line with infrastructure developments.
• Ensure all platforms are patched in line with provider recommendations and SiXworks security policy.
• Quickly and accurately assess impact of incidents, initiate return to service and ensure follow up actions are completed.
• Identify trends and problems and plan changes to improve stability and performance.
• Maintain cutting edge knowledge and skills in the design and build of secure public, private, and hybrid cloud and network technologies.
• Develop personal knowledge through study/research toward vocational certifications in relevant technologies/vendors.
• Advise customers and project teams on infrastructure and support aspects.
• Cascade knowledge through knowledge articles for the team and wider organisation.
• Support the SiXworks team in winning business.

Our SiXworks team is a fusion of brilliance, featuring senior operational, technical, and business leaders from various industries and the armed forces. We're also powered by a league of extraordinary IT engineers, architects, developers, and project managers. Together, we're an unstoppable force of innovation!

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