Infrastructure Engineer

Role

Location and work pattern

• Based primarily at a customer site near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, 4–5 days per week.
• Occasional travel to other Leidos and customer sites may be required.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical leadership and line management, including daily direction, coaching, mentoring, and team support.
• Lead infrastructure and application changes in an Agile environment while contributing hands-on to complex delivery, troubleshooting, and assurance.
• Deploy and configure Microsoft and VMware services, virtual infrastructure, Tanzu Kubernetes, and Windows-based technologies.
• Support the development and sustainment of government systems and services.
• Identify technologies and improvements that solve problems and increase customer value.

Skills and knowledge

• Experience leading technical teams as a hands-on infrastructure subject matter expert and carrying out line management responsibilities.
• Ability to balance people leadership, technical governance, and direct delivery across complex changes.
• Strong communication and technical documentation skills; experience in security-cleared environments or Defence.
• Knowledge of VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T, VMware Cloud Foundation, Tanzu Kubernetes, and Windows Server.
• Knowledge of Active Directory and Group Policy, DNS and DHCP, monitoring, antivirus, backup, networking, storage, and virtual workload management.
• Knowledge of VMware Aria Operations, Microsoft technologies, SQL Server, System Centre, Office 365, PowerShell, TCP/IP, switches, and firewalls.
• Linux administration, SCCM application deployment, WSUS, secure LAN environments, and Windows workstation deployment and support are also listed.
• Microsoft and VMware certifications and Agile Foundation and Practitioner certifications are listed as basic qualifications.

Clearance

• The role requires DV clearance and states that applicants must be UK nationals.

Pay

• Advertised pay range is £61,500–£78,800; no compensation cadence is stated.

Benefits

• Benefits include a contributory pension, private medical insurance, 33 days of annual leave including public and privilege holidays, flexible benefits, and flexi-time.