Infrastructure Engineer – Defence & National SecurityLocation: Farnborough (Hybrid)Salary: £50,000–£55,000 + excellent benefitsClearance: Must be eligible for SCLooking to take your infrastructure career into high-impact defence and national security projects? This is a great opportunity for an Infrastructure Engineer to join a growing consultancy delivering cutting-edge, secure IT solutions. You’ll work closely with company directors, get daily exposure to innovative projects, and benefit from structured training, personal development time and genuine progression opportunities.What you’ll be doingMaintaining and improving multi-classification, virtualised, cloud and collaboration environmentsSupporting Office 365 and Azure SaaS platforms, plus hybrid and private cloud systemsEnhancing “secure by design” infrastructure practices across projectsPerforming infrastructure maintenance, patching and change control activitiesMonitoring and triaging alerts, security events and tickets across key platformsSupporting upgrades and optimisation across VMware, Linux and Windows systemsAdvising project teams on infrastructure best practice and producing technical documentationSharing knowledge with colleagues, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to winning new workWhat you’ll bringWindows Server (2016+) administrationVMware (vSphere, vCenter, VCF) experienceLinux (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu) administrationAzure/Microsoft 365 support and managementPowerShell scriptingEUD provisioning (Autopilot), patching and hardeningUnderstanding of Single Sign-On (SSO) and working in protectively marked environmentsNice to have: Kubernetes, DevSecOps tooling, Elastic, Nessus, Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, application packaging, Agile sprint delivery experience.Why this role?Play a key part in secure national defence programmesWork directly with directors in a growing, innovative businessDedicated training budget and protected time for learningHybrid working from modern Farnborough officesCompetitive salary, strong benefits and a supportive team culture #J-18808-Ljbffr