Senior Infrastructure Engineer - DV Cleared at Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Salisbury, 12 Months, £Contract Rate

DSTL is the Ministry of Defence (MOD)'s science and technology organisation, providing unique expertise, crucial insights and delivering battle-winning solutions for the benefit of the nation and allies. DSTL is one of the principal government organisations dedicated to science and technology in the defence and security field. DSTL supplies specialist and sensitive services to MOD and wider government, working collaboratively with external partners in industry and academia and worldwide, providing expert research, specialist advice and invaluable operational support.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer you will provide advice and direction on digital infrastructure technical design, implementation, and support of infrastructure technologies.

This role will be supporting the running and development of one of Dstl's systems, for example you will be working with the current Senior Infrastructure Engineer to; carryout hardware capability refreshes, upgrades, and developments, manage user accounts, configure and install software, and support users and wider project tasking.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer your main responsibilities will be to:

• Scope out potential solutions with users for digital infrastructure issues and assess the effort and cost involved with implementation.
• Produce documentation to be used in proposals, following standard project processes and procedures.
• Evaluate hardware and software (within server, network, storage or desktop environments) to ensure that the test and integration of new products (both hardware and software) for successful incorporation into program infrastructure.
• Provide administration, support, and enhancement of the digital environment, for example: User accounts, control the network access integrity, manage the data, in terms of space allocated to data, SAN optimization.
• Provide first to last line support to ensure the right support.
• Be aware of the relevant timescales and to respond, fix or escalate according to the limits set out within that structure.

Essential:

• An active DV Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. (Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.) 
• A thorough knowledge of Microsoft Windows workstation and server deployment, system management, and desktop support.
• Experience in the management and deployment of Windows Domain Services, including Active Directory services and account management, Group Policy management, DHCP and DNS services.
• Microsoft Windows patch management using WSUS.
• Experience within a customer support environment and an appreciation of the impact of problems on the customer business.
• Documentation skills, with the ability to produce documents for use by colleagues.
• Self-paced, motivated, and capable of independent problem solving and fault finding.

Desirable:

• Technical Infrastructure skills in an enterprise environment.
• Linux server system management, ideally Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Network communications and routing (ideally Cisco), and VOIP / VTC solutions.
• Public Sector / Defence experience.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be UK Nationals who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to undertake the projects we are involved in to protect us from security threats. For this reason, only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DSTL guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

DSTL guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.