Infrastructure Engineer

Job Introduction

Job Description for the Infrastructure Engineer:

NNL is where your solutions solve real-world problems. As part of our Engineering team, you’ll not only be able to get involved with a huge variety of projects, you’ll also have lots of opportunity to drive them through from start to finish — allowing you to see the impact your work has in a real-world environment. This is your chance to use your experience, expertise and ingenuity to collaborate with leading scientists. You’ll be part of a team that delivers work to benefit society by advancing cleaner energy, protecting the environment and keeping everyone safe.

The role of the Infrastructure Engineer is to build, administrate, manage, and troubleshoot the NNL IT network, on-premises server infrastructure and cloud environment.
They will also maintain the security of those components and remediate any problems where needed both in and out of standard business hours and in line with NNL governance and good industry practice.

Role Responsibility

Main Responsibilities for the Infrastructure Engineer:

• Lead project implementation through strong understanding of on premise and cloud network and server infrastructure.
• Responsible for building and configuring new infrastructure as required.
• Preparing submissions for CAB; delivering standard and emergency change requests.
• Provide service transition documentation and handover to the Operations Team.
• Support Operations work by aiding in compliance and remediation tasks for windows and Linux.
• Support Operations with escalations from the Infrastructure Support Engineers or Service Delivery Manager.
• Supporting architects and where agreed, feed into the production of infrastructure designs.
• Required to work out of hours (flex).

The Ideal Candidate

Essential Criteria for the Infrastructure Engineer:

• Ability to obtain SC level security clearance (this includes but is not limited to identity, employment, financial and criminal record checks plus 5 years’ worth of UK residency).
• Experienced Infrastructure Engineer.
• Experienced in complex business and application environments and interdependencies.
• Experienced in managing Linux environment through tools such as Landscape.
• Experienced in virtualised infrastructure, Hyper-V, VMWare, Azure and Cloud Services such as Azure PaaS, SaaS, InTune and Office 365 Administration.
• Practical hands-on experience in Storage Solutions, Backup and Replication Services (DFS, VEEAM, ASR).
• Experienced with security controls including (SIEM, Vulnerability Scanning, Server and Client Security, ZScaler and Azure Security Centre).
• Good working knowledge of PowerShell, Automation, Azure Runbooks and Blueprints.
• Ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and changing business requirements.

Desirable Criteria for the Infrastructure Engineer:

• Demonstrable experience in information technology sector.
• Self-motivated, proactive and customer focused with excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Experience of working in accredited / regulated environments and required documentation, with knowledge of balancing business benefit with technology risk.
• Degree in information technology or engineering related subjects with relevant technology certification.

About the Company

NNL is an incredible place to work A place where people do things that have never been done before A place where people push boundaries to further themselves, the business, and society as a whole.

This is a place where personal and professional opportunities are limitless. If you want to change the world, if you want to tackle climate change, if you want to help advance medical science, if you want to help put things in space, if you want to answer the big questions, if you want to work with extraordinary materials, if you want to meet great people, learn new skills, challenge yourself, work flexibly, and build a long successful career with the power to make a real impact… you can do it all here.

NNL has a vision for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity (ED&I) where NNL aims to be an inclusive workplace that attracts diverse talent through transparent and equal policies and procedures. We want you and the diverse mix of people that we employ, customers that we service, and stakeholders that we influence to feel valued. We encourage a workplace culture where everyone can thrive with a sense of belonging.

Recruitment Agency Notice

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for the provision of recruitment services. Only agencies on our PSL may provide CVs and only when the role is released to them by our recruitment team. We will not accept unsolicited CVs from suppliers not currently on our PSL. We explicitly reserve the right to add candidate details from unsolicited CVs from non-PSL agencies into our own candidate database and to pursue/hire such candidate(s) without any obligation, financial or otherwise, to the agency concerned.

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