Sopra Steria
Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Data Centre
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Ready to get hands-on at the heart of a mission-critical infrastructure environment?
We're looking for a proactive and enthusiastic Data Centre IMAC Engineer to join our team near Salisbury. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys variety, technical challenges, and working in a highly secure enterprise hosting environment where no two days are the same.
Working alongside experienced Data Centre professionals, you'll play a key role in keeping critical infrastructure operational, secure, and ready to support demanding business and customer requirements.
You do need to be eligible for SC and DFV Clearance for this role.
Office based Salisbury 4 days per week, home based 1 day.
What you'll be doing:
- Installing, moving, adding and changing (IMAC) enterprise infrastructure.
- Racking, cabling, deploying and monitoring server and hardware environments.
- Supporting the maintenance and operation of physical compute platforms and associated systems.
- Working closely with Project teams to deliver new capabilities and infrastructure changes.
- Collaborating with Service Operations and BAU teams to resolve incidents and maintain service availability.
- Managing assets and configuration records across approved systems.
- Supporting Change Management and Configuration Management processes.
- Assisting with Data Centre operations across additional sites.
- Participating in an on-call rota and supporting out-of-hours maintenance, change activity and break-fix work.
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What you'll bring:
- Experience working within a Data Centre or IT infrastructure environment.
- Knowledge of server installation, racking, stacking, and decommissioning.
- Experience installing and managing structured copper and fibre optic cabling.
- Understanding of network infrastructure including switches, routers, patch panels and network connectivity.
- Ability to perform hardware installations, relocations and equipment upgrades.
- Experience following Change Management and Configuration Management processes.
- Knowledge of ITIL principles and incident, problem and request management.
- Experience using IT Service Management (ITSM) tools such as ServiceNow or Remedy.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve hardware and connectivity issues.
- Understanding of power distribution, UPS systems, cooling and environmental monitoring within a Data Centre.
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Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Salisbury 4 days per week 1 day home working.
Security Clearance Level: Eligible for SC and DV Clearance.
Internal Recruiter: Jane
Salary: Up to £50K
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional holiday 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.
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