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Infrastructure Site Lead

Sopra Steria
Department:Design
Type:HYBRID
Region:Newport, Wales
Location:Newport, Wales, United Kingdom
Experience:Mid-Senior level
Salary:£50,000 - £55,000
Skills:
VMWARECITRIXWINDOWS SERVERANSIBLEHP HARDWAREAUTOMATIONCONFIGURATION MANAGEMENTINFRASTRUCTUREVIRTUAL SERVERSPHYSICAL SERVERS
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Job Description

Posted on: March 6, 2026

Are you a Senior Infrastructure Engineer looking for a move into a role with more responsibility? We are currently recruiting for an Infrastructure Site Lead to support one of 3 Infrastructure Hubs for a key account within the business. Reporting into the Infrastructure Manager this is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned engineer looking to take the next step in their career. This role offers the successful candidate a chance to be the technical authority on site as well as taking the lead of a small team of engineers. The ideal candidate will have a solid technical background with experience working in physical and virtual servers, VMware and Citrix. This is a hybrid role based out of the Newport site with 3 days a week in the office so applicants must be within commutable distance to Newport. Due to the nature of the client, we are only able to consider candidates that are eligible for SC clearance. What you’ll be doing:

  • Provide technical design, implementation and support of infrastructure technologies.
  • Be the escalation point and technical authority on site proficient in administration and maintenance of physical and virtual servers.
  • Line Management of a small team of engineers and escalation point for other engineers on site.
  • Managing incidents and ensuring adherence to agreed SLA’s.
  • Coordination across 3 customer sites and providing remote support when required.

What you’ll bring:

  • Experience of HP Hardware
  • Hands on experience with VMware, Citrix and Windows Server
  • Understanding of Automation and Configuration tech (Ansible experience preferred)
  • Experience of working in a project environment.
  • Experience within a customer support environment and an appreciation of the impact of problems on the customer business.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you! Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent Location: Hybrid (3 days per week on site in Newport) Security clearance level: SC Internal Recruiter: Olly Walker Salary: Up to £55,000 Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us? Our Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions that bring clients enduring business value across the UK’s Public and Private sectors. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported, delivering exceptional rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.

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