About this role
Salary: £75,000 - 75,000 per year
Requirements: We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer with proven experience in IT infrastructure operations in complex, regulated environments, ideally within national security, defence or intelligence.We need someone comfortable working under strict change control, audit and compliance requirements in a high-assurance, classified setting.We would ideally like experience with some or all of the following: VMware Suite (ESXi, vCenter, NSX / VCF), Windows System Administration (AD, DNS, DHCP, PKI), Linux System Administration, Backup & Recovery (Veeam or similar), Containers (Docker and/or Kubernetes), Monitoring (Nagios or equivalent), Networking (TCP/IP, VLANs, firewalls), and cyber security awareness and principles.We value familiarity with ITIL4 and the ability to apply it in agile/DevOps environments.We need someone able to support software development teams across microservices, containerisation and CI/CD.Strong communication skills are essential, with the ability to engage effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.We are looking for a self-motivated person with a proactive mindset.DV / eDV Clearance is required. Responsibilities: We own incident resolution, change implementation and scheduled maintenance across secure, mission-critical environments.We implement approved technical changes on behalf of our end customers, following strict change management and compliance processes.We identify and deliver platform improvements, including automation to reduce manual effort and human error.We proactively monitor the environment to detect and address issues before they impact service.We support the Technical Lead with escalation management, risk tracking and active oversight of the environment.We contribute to stakeholder management, service reporting and review meetings with our service delivery function and customer teams.We produce clear, accurate documentation to ITIL4 standards.We collaborate with DevOps and software engineering teams to support containerised and service-oriented workloads. Technologies: CI/CDDevOpsDockerEmbeddedSupportKubernetesLinuxMarketingSecurityTCP/IPVMwareVeeamWindowsmicroservices More:
We are an established on-site infrastructure engineering team based in Gloucester, offering a hybrid working arrangement and a salary of £55,000 to £70,000 plus a DV bonus. This is a rare opportunity to work on highly secure government environments and genuinely impactful national security programmes in a cleared, fast-paced operational setting, embedded directly with an end customer team. We are an industry-leading nationwide recruitment agency specialising in Marketing, Digital, Analytics, IT and Design, and we regularly receive new permanent and interim opportunities.
last updated 30 week of 2026