IT Operations Engineer; MoD
Listed on 2026-11-02
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IT/Tech
Systems Administrator, Windows Server
G Recruitment Ltd are proudly working exclusively with a modern & long standing Lincolnshire based commercial defence business, recruiting for an experienced IT Operations Engineer (Windows Specialism 2016 / 2019) to work on a clients MoD base managing, maintaining & optimising the organisation's core information technology infrastructure, including servers, networks, cloud services & software systems, with the primary goal being to ensure that the technology services remain reliable, secure, available & scalable to support daily commercial defence / MoD business activities.
Duties:- To provide CIS IT operations engineering Windows specialist expertise on behalf of the Company to the MOD Organisation to support current & future CIS priorities. Maintaining / implementing cybersecurity best practices & actionable safeguards designed to defend the organisation against potential cyberattacks.
- Provide IT operations advice, mentoring & guidance, written & verbal, to an CIS team, technical and programme management. Capture customer practices, processes & requirements.
- Identify areas of operational difficulty, patterns, inefficiency & effectiveness in CIS operations.
Practical Understanding
- Able to create & configure virtual environments & manage resource allocation
- Able to investigate & resolve virtual environment incidents
- Able to install, configure & administer Microsoft Windows Server operation systems
- Able to administer remote desktop services
- Able to investigate & resolve Windows Server operating system incidents
- VMWare Sphere or equivalent (Nutarix, PVE, Hyper-V, Kubevirt, Kubernetes or XCP-ng or similar)
- Windows Server 2019 or equivalent (Windows 2022 or 2025)
- HPE Nimble Administration & Integration or equivalent (HPE Alletra)
- Automating Administration with Windows Power Shell or equivalent (Bash, Power Shell or Python)
- Arctera Backup Exec or equivalent (Veeam, VDP, Catalogic DPX or similar)
This role is based 5 days on-site in Lincolnshire (no hybrid) & is commutable from Lincoln, Sleaford, Spalding, Boston, Newark, Gainsborough, Retford, Worksop, Holbeach, Grantham, Long Bennington, Stamford, Scunthorpe, Nottingham & Mansfield.
Interviews to take place immediately.
Please Note:
you must be happy to undertake a SC security check for this role as it is on an MoD base
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