Senior Infrastructure Engineer DV Cleared - Outside IR35

Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Outside IR35 / MOD / Defence - High Security Clearance
£550-£600 per day Outside IR35 (expenses if required)
Somerset | On-site
DV Cleared

Are you an Infrastructure Engineer with strong hands-on experience across networking, storage, virtualisation and Windows infrastructure?

This is a contract role working on the build and deployment of infrastructure within a highly secure Defence environment in Somerset. You'll be working across the physical and virtual infrastructure stack, including Cisco Nexus networking, NetApp storage, Hyper-V, VMware and Windows Server.

This is a hands-on engineering position, suited to someone comfortable building, configuring and hardening infrastructure rather than purely supporting an established environment.

The role

• Configuring and hardening Cisco Nexus Leaf/Spine network infrastructure
• Initialising and presenting NetApp storage, including data-at-rest encryption
• Building and hardening Hyper-V clusters for core services including AD, DNS and PKI
• Supporting the integration and enablement of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
• Working with HSM/KMS appliances and hardware-based cryptographic systems
• Supporting key management and key ceremony activities
• Building and configuring Windows Server 2022/2025 environments
• Completing physical infrastructure installation, including rack-and-stack and secure cabling
• Working to the security and engineering standards required within a Defence environment

What you'll need

You’ll need strong infrastructure engineering experience, ideally including:

• Cisco Nexus or equivalent enterprise networking technologies
• NetApp ONTAP or comparable enterprise storage
• Hyper-V deployment within highly available environments
• VMware Cloud Foundation, ideally VCF 5+
• 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 cablingDue to the nature of the project, you'll need to have active DV Clearance.

If your background covers networking, storage and virtualisation and you're comfortable delivering infrastructure hands-on within a secure Defence environment, this is an opportunity to work across the full infrastructure build rather than being limited to one technology area

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