Sopra Steria
Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Messaging Solutions
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Job Description: Technical Authority for Enterprise Messaging Services
You will act as the technical authority and lead subject matter expert for enterprise messaging services, with particular focus on Microsoft Exchange On-Premises and secure communications technologies.
Working within a highly governed and collaborative team, you will take ownership of the design, implementation and evolution of critical messaging platforms that support national security operations.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future direction of secure messaging capability, leading the delivery of new solutions from concept and architecture through to implementation, optimisation and lifecycle management.
You'll provide technical leadership across complex infrastructure initiatives, ensuring messaging services remain resilient, secure and aligned to evolving user and operational requirements.
The role will particularly appeal to individuals with experience in military messaging environments, defence communications, X.400 messaging systems or other highly secure communications infrastructures where security, availability and reliability are paramount.
We recognise the importance of flexibility and, where business needs allow, support a range of flexible working arrangements, including compressed hours such as a five-day week worked over four days.
What you'll be doing:
- Leading the architecture, design and implementation of secure messaging and collaboration solutions across mission-critical environments.
- Acting as the technical authority and subject matter expert for Microsoft Exchange On-Premises and associated messaging technologies.
- Defining technical strategy, standards and roadmaps to support the evolution of messaging capability and the delivery of new services.
- Providing advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis and resolution of complex messaging, infrastructure and platform issues.
- Leading technical delivery activities across projects, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, supportable and aligned to governance requirements.
- Driving continuous improvement, resilience, supportability and cost optimisation across messaging and communication platforms.
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What you'll bring:
- Extensive experience designing, engineering and implementing Microsoft Exchange On-Premises solutions within enterprise or highly regulated environments.
- Strong expertise in messaging architecture, infrastructure engineering and the delivery of secure communication platforms.
- Experience with SharePoint Server Subscription Edition (SPSE) and wider Microsoft collaboration technologies.
- Strong experience supporting and engineering Skype for Business within enterprise environments.
- Deep technical infrastructure knowledge including clustering, resilience, hardware evaluation, system integration and platform optimisation.
- Proven experience delivering technical solutions within highly governed environments and working to demanding service level agreements.
It would be great if you had:
- Experience with X.400 messaging systems, particularly within military, defence or other highly secure environments.
- Experience designing or supporting military messaging systems, secure communications platforms or nationally critical services.
- Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) certification or equivalent industry certification.
- Experience producing high-quality technical documentation, operational procedures and support artefacts.
Employment Details:
- Type: Full-time, Permanent.
- Location: On-site, Gloucestershire.
- Security Clearance Level: Developed Vetting (DV).
- Internal Recruiter: Paul Kitchen.
- Salary: Dependent on experience. Details will be discussed with the recruiter.
- Benefits: £5400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.
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About Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security Business
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.
We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
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