Job title: Senior Infrastructure Engineer (SC Eligible)
Job type: Permanent
Emp type: Full-time
Salary type: Annual
Salary from: GBP £70,000.00
Salary to: GBP £75,000.00
Location: Farnborough
Job published: 20/08/2025
Job ID: 37858
Contact name: Emma Homann, Mark Burgess
Phone number: +441962442047, +441962442045
Contact email: emma@talentlocker.co.uk, mark@talentlocker.co.uk

Job Description

Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Defence IT Solutions
Location: Farnborough (Hybrid)
Salary: £70,000–£75,000 + excellent benefits
Clearance: Must be eligible for SC clearance

Looking to take your infrastructure expertise into high-impact defence and national security projects? This is a great opportunity for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join a fast-growing consultancy delivering innovative, secure IT solutions across public and private cloud environments. You’ll be working at the cutting edge of virtualisation, cloud and automation in a business where technical excellence and collaboration go hand-in-hand.

What you’ll be doing

  • Maintaining and improving multi-classification, virtualised and cloud-based environments
  • Leading Ubuntu upgrade and optimisation activity, mentoring junior engineers along the way
  • Supporting “secure by design” practices across projects and internal platforms
  • Providing infrastructure support across Office 365, Azure and hybrid cloud systems
  • Performing patching, hardening and monitoring to keep systems compliant and secure
  • Supporting Elastic upgrades, VMware and Openshift environments
  • Automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration (e.g. Ansible, PowerShell)
  • Triaging and resolving alerts, incidents and change requests in line with IT security policy
  • Sharing knowledge through documentation, training and supporting the wider team

What you’ll bring

  • Strong background in Windows Server (2016+) and Linux (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu)
  • Experience with VMware, Azure and networking fundamentals
  • EUD provisioning (Autopilot), patching and hardening experience
  • Understanding of SSO, secure environments and protective marking
  • Familiarity with automation tools (Ansible, PowerShell)
  • Desirable: Kubernetes, Terraform, Elastic, Nessus, HashiCorp Vault, Microsoft 365 administration, Agile ways of working

Why this role?

  • Work in a forward-looking consultancy solving some of the UK’s most complex IT and security challenges
  • Collaborate with a close-knit, expert team in a supportive culture that values continuous learning
  • Exposure to modern cloud, security and automation tools across varied projects
  • Hybrid working model from Farnborough HQ with flexibility built in
  • Competitive salary, strong benefits and career growth opportunities