Job Title
IT Infrastructure Engineer
Location
Hawthorn, Corsham + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation and Benefits
Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type
Full time / Permanent
Role ID
SF73526
The role
As an IT Infrastructure Engineer, you'll be at the heart of a critical military satellite communications programme, supporting secure networks that operate in complex and demanding environments.
You'll help design, modernise, and maintain IT systems that underpin national defence capabilities, work that truly makes a difference to society.
Day to day responsibilities
- Maintain, develop and improve on premise IT platform services to support critical national infrastructure.
- Ensure that services are patched and maintained according to internal and customer policies and procedures.
- Provide 3rd/4th line technical support to the customer, third parties and wider satellite communication teams.
- Be part of an on call rota to support fault diagnosis and rectification out of normal working hours.
- Work within a team for the specification, development, and implementation of a new Hosting Platform.
- Provide systems level expertise to the evaluation, specification, and implementation of new capabilities on the system.
Essential experience
- Experience designing, building or supporting on premise infrastructure and virtualisation solutions based on VMWare ESX, VCentre and VCF.
- Operating system support such as Redhat Linux, Windows 11, Windows Server 2022 and 2025.
- Identity and Access Management such as Windows Active Directory.
- Detailed understanding of IP networking and controls.
- Some software scripting and debugging expertise would be an advantage.
Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant Engineering Discipline.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) / Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role. Must be Sole UK National.
What we offer
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
- Employee share scheme.
- Employee shopping savings portal.
- Payment of Professional Fees.
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave.
- Holiday Trading to buy or sell annual leave.
- Flexible working to support work life balance.
- A dynamic working environment where expertise is valued.
Babcock
We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure.
We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'.
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