System Architect

Job Title: SC Cleared - Systems Architect

Location: Flexible – Romsey | Gloucester | Woking

Annul Salary: £70,0000 - £75,000

Job Type: Permanent

We have an exciting opportunity available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! As a Systems Architect, you’ll join an expanding Corporate Services IT department that supports mission-critical work completed by over 1200 end users across hundreds of servers. The unique nature of the business areas you and your team will support creates complex and often time-critical demands to deliver effective, reliable, and enduring IT platforms across conventional on-premises systems, cloud computing, and air-gapped systems.

Clearances:

Due to the nature of this role, eligibility for DV clearance is required. As a result, candidates should be British Citizens and have resided in the U.K. for the last 10 years.

Key Experience:

In this role, you’ll be understanding, maintaining, and developing specific aspects of an enterprise IT environment, encompassing tasks across technical design, implementation, and support.

• Systems engineering experience at a technical lead or architectural level with vendor technologies such as Microsoft, Amazon (AWS), VMWare, RedHat, or similar.

• Ability to design, support, and maintain internal IT environments, platforms, and services at SME level or above.

• Awareness of Defence or National Security IT standards is preferable; experience within these domains, including environments that operate at multiple classification levels, is advantageous.

Key Technologies:

Below are some of the key enterprise IT technologies used, and while you do not need to be a specialist in all of these, training and support will be provided as needed:

• Corporate Microsoft Estate: Includes 1200+ desktops and hundreds of servers across multiple sites This encompasses ‘On-Prem’ Microsoft full stack alongside O365, Azure, and AWS offerings.

• Cloud Platforms: Primarily AWS and Azure, including organisation design (layout), tenancy/account management, security, identity management, service provisioning, and reporting functions.

• Mobile Device Management: Overseeing 300+ deployed mobile devices, applying best practices and industry standards.

• Cyber Security and Information Assurance: Managing and maintaining intrusion detection apparatus, supporting queries/investigations, and ensuring hardened configuration of IT equipment.

• DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering: Supporting enterprise software teams and their CI/CD requirements using tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, or SonarQube, among others.