Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Location:

Gloucester, South Gloucestershire

Permanent, full time, onsite 5 days a week.

All candidates must currently hold or already hold eDV clearance.

• Perform system administration and backup tasks
• Assist in the investigation and resolution of issues relating to applications, networks and services
• Contribute to maintenance, installation and problem resolution
• Research and resolve system design issues
• Provide interpretation of requirements and design into component implementation

• Experience working within an Agile / SCRUM / Dev Ops delivery model
• Experience as a Systems Engineer in software intensive programmes covering the full engineering lifecycle, from requirements decomposition to acceptance and customer sign‑off
• Understanding of the complexities in design and implementation of large‑scale information systems
• Ability to take responsibility for technical aspects of a project, and to work closely with project management to deliver
• Linux administration and deployment
• Understanding of server, storage and desktop hardware

• Experience working in a Linux environment (Red Hat, CentOS)
• Knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory, OU, User and Group Management
• Demonstrable experience of model‑based systems architecture/engineering (e.g. MODAF, TOGAF)
• Knowledge of Red Hat migrations
• Knowledge of networking health monitoring
• Knowledge of Concourse (writing pipelines, administering the cluster)
• Understanding of VMware vSphere ESXi
• Knowledge of Atlassian Suite
• Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
• Docker / Kubernetes containerisation and orchestration
• Elasticsearch/Kibana
• Cloud services (AWS or Azure)
• Helm charts
• MongoDB
• Experience building enterprise level web applications or services
• Apache Kafka

• Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary life assurance with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays; option to buy and sell up to 5 days (37 hr)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cash plan, Dental, and Cycle to Work among others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family‑friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

• 37‑hour working week, although hours may vary depending on role and job‑requirement site‑specific arrangements
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site‑based working opportunities, dependent on your needs and the requirements of the role
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year
• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role)

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.