Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: £75,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer with proven experience in IT infrastructure operations in complex, regulated environments, ideally within national security, defence or intelligence.
• We need someone comfortable working under strict change control, audit and compliance requirements in a high-assurance, classified setting.
• We would ideally like experience with some or all of the following: VMware Suite (ESXi, vCenter, NSX / VCF), Windows System Administration (AD, DNS, DHCP, PKI), Linux System Administration, Backup & Recovery (Veeam or similar), Containers (Docker and/or Kubernetes), Monitoring (Nagios or equivalent), Networking (TCP/IP, VLANs, firewalls), and cyber security awareness and principles.
• We value familiarity with ITIL4 and the ability to apply it in agile/DevOps environments.
• We need someone able to support software development teams across microservices, containerisation and CI/CD.
• Strong communication skills are essential, with the ability to engage effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.
• We are looking for a self-motivated person with a proactive mindset.
• DV / eDV Clearance is required.

Responsibilities:

• We own incident resolution, change implementation and scheduled maintenance across secure, mission-critical environments.
• We implement approved technical changes on behalf of our end customers, following strict change management and compliance processes.
• We identify and deliver platform improvements, including automation to reduce manual effort and human error.
• We proactively monitor the environment to detect and address issues before they impact service.
• We support the Technical Lead with escalation management, risk tracking and active oversight of the environment.
• We contribute to stakeholder management, service reporting and review meetings with our service delivery function and customer teams.
• We produce clear, accurate documentation to ITIL4 standards.
• We collaborate with DevOps and software engineering teams to support containerised and service-oriented workloads.

Technologies:

• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Docker
• Embedded
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Marketing
• Security
• TCP/IP
• VMware
• Veeam
• Windows
• microservices

More:

We are an established on-site infrastructure engineering team based in Gloucester, offering a hybrid working arrangement and a salary of £55,000 to £70,000 plus a DV bonus. This is a rare opportunity to work on highly secure government environments and genuinely impactful national security programmes in a cleared, fast-paced operational setting, embedded directly with an end customer team. We are an industry-leading nationwide recruitment agency specialising in Marketing, Digital, Analytics, IT and Design, and we regularly receive new permanent and interim opportunities.

last updated 30 week of 2026