Infrastructure Engineer
Farnborough
SC Cleared
12 Month Contract
Inside IR35
Mid-level engineering experience of enterprise infrastructure platforms - architecture, design, development, integration, customisation & implementation. Specifically in building scalable, reliable and secure virtualisation platforms and management platforms.
Solid knowledge on managing the life-cycle of virtual machines and containers, with an in-depth understanding of scheduling, security and compliance challenges and operational considerations.
Proficiency in one or more scripting/programming languages, such as PowerShell, bash, Python, C# or Go.
Clear understanding of network OSI model and protocols, good concepts of network name spaces, network overlay and BGP, ready to troubleshoot and diagnose network/load balancer/firewall related issues.
Experienced in building automated solutions through tools and orchestration engines that enable infrastructure to be provisioned, configured, changed and decommissioned through infrastructure life cycle in automated fashion.
Working knowledge of databases, middleware components and web applications, good understanding of the principles of micro-services architectures.
Required Skills:
Virtualisation and Container Ecosystems:- VMware vSphere, Kubernetes, Docker
Operating Systems:- RHEL/CentOS Linux, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 (or later)
Enterprise Network Infrastructure:- Routing, Switching, VLANs, Firewalls and Load Balancers/Reverse Proxy
Programming Experience:- C#, Go, Python, Bash, PowerShell
Modern API and Microservice principles:- REST APIs, OpenAPI RESTful Design, and gRPC
Infrastructure as Code, Configuration Management as Code: Ansible/Chef/Puppet, PowerShell DSC, Terraform, and Packer
Enterprise Computing Infrastructure and its management: Dell EMC + iDRAC, HPE + iLO, iPMI
Enterprise Health and Logging:- Zabbix, Prometheus, Graphana, Splunk, Elastic stack (or any SNMP-based tool)
Experience with modern Continuous Integration-Continuous Deployment development pipelines:- Git, Jenkins, GitLab, Atlassian Jira/Bamboo, Github
