Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Our client delivers innovative solutions through the efforts of their diverse and talented people who are dedicated to their customers’ success. They empower their teams in the UK to address some of the most complex problems in defence, government, safety and security, and transportation. Everything they do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for their customers, their people, and their community. Their Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way they do business.

Our client is looking for a number of people who have a strong infrastructure background who has experience of coding/scripting and who wants to work as a DevOps Engineer.

The phase this project is in is that right now they are just trying to understand what the existing architecture in the application estate looks like before designing an automated solution which will transfer the customers Windows 7 to a Windows 10 environment.

• Review and perform due diligence on the existing customer application estate
• Understand current application configuration and integrations on legacy OS's and rehost existing applications into new VMWare environments
• Plan and automate required data migrations
• Author or contribute to migration planning
• Deploy CI/CD toolchains into VMWare environments

• Windows 10 and RHEL OS
• Virtualisation – VMWare
• Creation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Ansible, Git
• Scripting skills using PowerShell primarily but also Python and Bash
• Containerisation of applications using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes

The client would also like to see some of the below, but this is not essential:

• Knowledge of Geospatial Applications – ArcGIS, OpenSource, COTS
• Knowledge of imagery tooling and applications
• AWS hosting and automation

Our client is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, childcare vouchers and cycle to work scheme)
• Dynamic Working