Classified Infrastructure engineer

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Manchester 

Job Title: Classified Infrastructure Engineer

Location:  Manchester

What you’ll be doing

The chosen candidate will play a crucial role within the Classified Infrastructure team, undertaking the responsibility of maintaining and managing the overall performance and availability of classified networks and other hosted systems, and actively providing support to users at all levels of the organization—effectively addressing infrastructure support issues.

Due to the secure network required this role will be based on-site at our Manchester office, travel to other locations will also be required when necessary.

Your skills and experiences

• Linux OS, platforms including variants of Redhat and Debian
• Microsoft Active Directory
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2019 & 2022
• Microsoft Exchange 2016 & 2019
• SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022
• Windows Desktop
• VMWARE (Infrastructure 5.5, vSphere 7 and higher)
• Networking & Security – TCP/IP, DNS, Firewall Install, Configure & Support
• Citrix
• Provisioning services
• End point protection
• Infrastructure as Code tools such as Packer, Terraform or Ansible
• 3-5 years’ experience working in a busy IS Department or other relevant work experience.

Due to the secure nature of this role candidates must be eligible to obtain UK DV clearance

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive

This is an opportunity to join the Classified Infrastructure team within Digital Intelligence. We directly support the National Security and Defence business units, working to prevent harm and protect people, doing work that really matters.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks

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