Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Are you a VMWare specialist with a background in Infrastructure Engineering at scale?

Sopra Steria's Aerospace Defence and Security sector are currently on the lookout for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to support with a large scale project. The scope of the project is to build out a new environment for key clients in the defence sector following an "Automation first" mindset. In terms of skill set we would be looking for candidates with deep VMWare knowledge and experience with automation scripting and provisioning.

This role is working on site in Farnborough.

Due to the nature of the clients and sensitive projects, we are only able to progress with candidates eligible for DV clearance

What you'll be doing:

• Responsible for all aspects of VMware vSphere administration.
• Management of ESXi hosts, vCenter, clusters, and resource pools.
• Designing, deploying, and maintaining hyper‑converged storage environments
• Automation: PowerCLI scripting, template creation, and automated provisioning

What you'll bring:

• VMware vSphere administration: Deep experience managing ESXi hosts, vCenter, clusters, and resource pools.
• vSAN: Designing, deploying, and maintaining hyper‑converged storage environments.
• HA/DRS configuration: Building resilient clusters with high availability, distributed resource scheduling, and failover planning.
• VMware networking: Strong understanding of vSwitches, distributed switches, VLANs, port groups, and network segmentation
• VMware Horizon: Experience with VDI environments, image management, and application delivery (desirable if relevant). Automation

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Farnborough

Security Clearance Level: DV

Internal recruiter: Olly Walker

Salary: Up to £65,000

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.

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Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets.