Infrastructure Engineering Specialist

Randstad Technologies

Infrastructure Engineering Specialist – Platform Engineer

Security Clearance: An Active DV (Developed Vetting) level of National Security clearance is absolutely mandatory for this role.

Location & Working Model: London – Onsite 5 days per week

Company & Team: Leading Communications Group

Pay Rate: £654 Per Day via Umbrella (Inside IR35)

About the Engineering Team

Our Engineering division is a large, multi-disciplined “professional services” engineering practice. The team is organised into key customer-focused capabilities, each featuring sub-capability areas comprising single or multiple engineering delivery projects. Working from one of our dynamic London offices, your team will maintain and develop both bespoke and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) capabilities, working very closely with our customers across a wide variety of platforms and technology stacks.

What You Will Be Doing (Role Accountabilities)

• As an Infrastructure Engineering Specialist, you will independently drive the execution and vision for Enterprise Systems Management (ESM), Automation, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) technologies within our infrastructure landscape.
• Manages the implementation of high-level designs to create secure, stable network environments that meet the needs of the business, are shared with partners, and strictly comply with security, privacy, and audit requirements.
• Leads the maintenance of IT infrastructure tools and executes designs across network, security, compute, and storage domains in alignment with design standards.
• Provides advanced technical expertise to help resolve complex problems alongside managers, principals, and technical experts.
• Leads collaboration across cyber security, enterprise architecture, and application development teams to implement an effective product roadmap.
• Leads daily support for internal system health, tools, infrastructure projects, and customer support contracts.
• Leads collaboration with technical architects, using advanced technical knowledge to translate architectural designs directly into operational realities.
• Leads the installation, configuration, maintenance, optimization, and support of software, hardware, and communication links.

What You’ll Need to Succeed (Skills & Experience)

You must possess a strong background operating in a DevOps environment and demonstrate robust technical and business acumen.

• Security Clearance: An Active DV (Developed Vetting) level of National Security clearance is absolutely mandatory for this role.
• Virtualisation & OS: Hands-on experience with VMWare (ESX, VCentre, vCF), Containers, Kubernetes, VKS, NSX V&T, alongside Windows, Linux, or Mac Server system management.
• Scripting: Strong proficiency in Scripting languages like Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Java.
• Automation & IaC: Mastery of infrastructure automation, orchestration, and automated builds using Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Foreman, Kickstart (including PXE), or Microsoft Deployment toolkits.
• Code Management: A robust configuration-managed approach utilizing tools like Git or Subversion within continuous integration workflows.
• Storage: Understanding of deployment and configuration for network file sharing (NFS, SAMBA) and enterprise high-availability storage platforms (EMC, Dell, or NetApp).
• Networking: Solid networking background, ideally including large-scale platform configurations across campus and WAN topologies.
• Monitoring & Security: Experience configuring monitoring applications (Prometheus, Zabbix, SolarWinds, Nagios, OpenNMS, CheckMK) and security monitoring tooling (Elastic SIEM, Tenable).

If this sounds like you, please apply directly.

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.