Location: Reading (Hybrid Working)
Duration: 3 month initial contract
Rate: £87ph UMB (Inside IR35)
Role details:
Our client, a prominent player in the Defence & Security sector, is actively seeking an accomplished Infrastructure Engineer to join their team on a contract basis. This role offers a hybrid working arrangement at their client site in Reading.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the technical authority on one or more platform engineering domains (e.g., cloud, virtualisation, automation, networking, or cyber tooling) providing specialist domain expertise to projects and programmes.
- Lead the design and implementation of secure platforms across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments.
- Capture, analyse, and interpret complex customer requirements to drive system design and architecture.
- Develop high- and low-level designs, ensuring alignment with secure-by-design principles.
- Take ownership of technical delivery within work packages, including planning, estimation, and progress reporting.
- Mentor, coach, and develop junior and senior engineers, raising technical capability across the community.
- Provide input to technology strategies, feasibility studies, and innovation projects.
- Engage with internal and external stakeholders, presenting technical solutions and justifying design decisions.
Job Requirements:
- Extensive technical expertise across multiple platform domains, with a track record of delivering secure solutions.
- The ability to balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership and mentorship.
- A problem-solving mindset, able to innovate and recommend the best approach for complex challenges.
- Windows and Linux operating systems
- Virtualisation platforms (VMware, Hyper-V) and containerisation (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, firewalls)
- Automation and scripting (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform)
Desirable skills:
- Expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform)
- Experience integrating enterprise services (Active Directory, PKI, monitoring, SIEM)
- Hands-on use of DevSecOps tools and CI/CD pipelines
- Industry certifications (VMware VCP, AWS Solutions Architect, Microsoft, Kubernetes, or equivalent)
- Experience presenting at technical forums or contributing to technical standards
Apply now to join our client's innovative team in Reading.
