Senior Infrastructure Engineer DV
Summary
Senior Infrastructure Engineer designing and maintaining secure, mission-critical systems for Defence and National Security clients in highly secure environments.
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 RoleAs 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.
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.
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