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Server Infrastructure Engineer

Job Posted: 8 days ago

Salary: £ 550 - 600 / Day
Job Type: Contract
Location: Blandford Forum, Dorset

Expire in: 20 days

Job Description

Server Infrastructure Engineer

+9 months +

+On site in Blandford

+SC cleared role 

+Outside IR35

+£550 - £600 a day 

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Server Infrastructure Engineer to support the management, maintenance, and assurance of secure testbed environments that enable critical digital development, integration, and innovation activities within the Defence sector.

Working as part of a specialist engineering team, you will be responsible for maintaining both on-premise and cloud-hosted infrastructure environments, ensuring secure, reliable, and continuous support for development activities, testing, exercises, and emerging AI capabilities.

This is an exciting opportunity for an infrastructure professional with Defence CIS experience who enjoys working across server technologies, cloud platforms, virtualisation, networking, and cyber security.

Key Responsibilities

Manage and maintain on-premise server infrastructure, virtual environments, and deployable systems.
Support cloud-hosted development and test environments within MOD-approved platforms.
Build, configure, secure, and maintain Windows and Linux virtual machines.
Provision and support secure developer laptops in accordance with MOD security standards.
Ensure secure remote access capabilities for authorised users.
Conduct vulnerability management activities and support cyber security assurance requirements.
Maintain infrastructure documentation, architecture diagrams, and configuration records.
Support deployable CIS capabilities for exercises, demonstrations, and development activities.
Assist with the implementation and maintenance of AI-enabled development environments and supporting infrastructure.
Work closely with engineering, development, and security teams to ensure service availability and compliance.Essential Skills and Experience

MOD CIS experience i.e. BCIP, OpNET.
Knowledge of various Linux architectures and use of CLi 
Experience building and managing virtual machines (Windows and Linux) 
Laptop builds (install and securing) 
Active Directory 
Understanding of AI use cases and LLM functionality Desired knowledge and skills 

Kubernetes experience, installing and maintenance of clusters 
ProxMox Hypervisor 
Server Installation and management 
Networks (CCNA level) 
LDG, CTG and BCIP 
Cloud Architecture (Azure and Oracle) 
Databases 
Use of APIs for interoperability between applications If you'd like to discuss this Server Infrastructure Engineer role in more detail, please send your updated CV to (url removed) and I will get in touch

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