Infrastructure Engineer – HCI

Infrastructure Engineer (HCI) – St Neots (PE19 6BN) – Perm – Full Time

• 25 days annual leave (inclusive of up to 3 days December shut-down)
• Buy or sell up to 5 days’ annual leave
• Two pension schemes to choose from
• Private Medical & Dental Insurance + discounts for additional family members
• Life Assurance scheme up to 4 x salary
• Multiple Save schemes
• Electric/Hybrid Car leasing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Retail discounts
• Continuous Professional development support
• Annual Wellness Allowance

Our Digital Services Group (DSG) is a diverse business unit that provides a full spectrum of digital capabilities and is responsible for satisfying the technological requirements of the most secure settings. They have a favourable influence on national security initiatives for the United Kingdom and its strategic partners throughout the world.

Reporting to our Head of Delivery, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your abilities and expertise to work alongside our small team of IT network and infrastructure engineers in supporting both internal and external projects.

You will be based at our Cambridgeshire Head Office, but this is primarily a field-based role with regular UK travel and occasional overseas travel, depending on customer location.

The invaluable experience you’ll bring

As a senior engineer, you will be the primary point of contact for the networks and infrastructure team when dealing with complex infrastructure events and technical demands. Working with internal and external users to ensure all hardware and software is configured appropriately and is fit for purpose.

Essential Experience:

• Installation and Support of Dell Vxrail and ESXi on new hardware including Dell EMC Storage Centre Roles and responsibilities 
• Perform planning activities for the VxRail solution to be implemented 
• Gather and document business requirements, assess technical capabilities and analyze findings to translate into the engineering of technology solutions 
• Create logical, physical design and architecture for all VMware-based server and virtual desktop solutions (ESXi / vCenter, Horizon, NSX-T, AppVolumes, Dynamic Environment Manager) 
• Strong working knowledge of vCenter, ESXi, CLI commands, ESXi updates/troubleshooting 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Strong customer service and professional client facing-skills
• Strong time management and organizational skills and ability to meet project deadlines 
• Understanding of networking concepts, LAN/WAN, DNS/DHCP, routing, switching and firewalls within the scope of the VMware technology stack. 

  Nice to Haves

  In addition, it would be nice to have one or more of the following abilities and be open to learning new technologies, such as:

• Experience of working with the Microsoft Server operating systems
• Hands-on experience of configuring IP Routing and GRE tunnels
• Experience of using automation technologies such as Ansible, Chef or Puppet
• On-Premise Layer 3 Switching experience with vendor hardware such as Cisco, Dell, Aruba.
• Understanding of Government Security Classifications
• Working knowledge of the Jira Service Management ITSM tool
• Dell Avamar Backup Software experience

How you’ll support us

This role will contain some elements of On Call dependant on project requirements.

Our non-negotiables:

Due to the highly secure nature of the projects that you will be involved with, you must be:

• A UK National and eligible to work in the UK
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a UK Government DV-level security clearance

How MASS can support you

Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our people are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive employee assistance programme.

Apply today to see how working for MASS could work for you!