Senior Infrastructure Engineer DV Cleared

Salary: £38,000 - 67,500 per year

Requirements:

• Strong infrastructure engineering experience across networking, storage, virtualisation and Windows infrastructure
• Experience with Cisco Nexus or equivalent enterprise networking technologies
• Experience with NetApp ONTAP or comparable enterprise storage
• Experience with Hyper-V deployment within highly available environments
• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation, ideally VCF 5
• Experience with Windows Server 2022/2025
• Understanding of AD, DNS and PKI
• Experience with HSM/KMS technologies would be beneficial
• Experience delivering physical infrastructure, including rack-and-stack and cabling
• Active DV Clearance

Responsibilities:

• Configure and harden Cisco Nexus Leaf/Spine network infrastructure
• Initialise and present NetApp storage, including data-at-rest encryption
• Build and harden Hyper-V clusters for core services including AD, DNS and PKI
• Support the integration and enablement of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
• Work with HSM/KMS appliances and hardware-based cryptographic systems
• Support key management and key ceremony activities
• Build and configure Windows Server 2022/2025 environments
• Complete physical infrastructure installation, including rack-and-stack and secure cabling
• Work to the security and engineering standards required within a Defence environment

Technologies:

• Cloud
• Cisco
• Hardware
• HSM
• Hyper-V
• Support
• Network
• Nexus
• REST
• Security
• VMware
• Windows
• DevOps

More:

We are offering a contract Senior Infrastructure Engineer role within a highly secure Defence environment in Somerset. This is an on-site position outside IR35, with a day rate of £550-£600 and expenses available if required. We are looking for a hands-on engineer who can work across the full physical and virtual infrastructure stack, alongside infrastructure engineers and architects, delivering infrastructure build and deployment work across networking, storage, virtualisation and Windows systems.

last updated 39 week of 2026