Senior Infrastructure Engineer DV Cleared - Outside IR35

Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Outside IR35 / MOD / Defence - High Security Clearance
£550-£600 per day Outside IR35 (expenses if required)
Somerset | On-site
DV Cleared

Are you an Infrastructure Engineer with strong hands-on experience across networking, storage, virtualisation and Windows infrastructure?

This is a contract role working on the build and deployment of infrastructure within a highly secure Defence environment in Somerset. You'll be working across the physical and virtual infrastructure stack, including Cisco Nexus networking, NetApp storage, Hyper-V, VMware and Windows Server.

This is a hands-on engineering position, suited to someone comfortable building, configuring and hardening infrastructure rather than purely supporting an established environment.

The role

Working alongside infrastructure engineers and architects, you'll be responsible for areas including:

• Configuring and hardening Cisco Nexus Leaf/Spine network infrastructure
• Initialising and presenting NetApp storage, including data-at-rest encryption
• Building and hardening Hyper-V clusters for core services including AD, DNS and PKI
• Supporting the integration and enablement of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
• Working with HSM/KMS appliances and hardware-based cryptographic systems
• Supporting key management and key ceremony activities
• Building and configuring Windows Server 2022/2025 environments
• Completing physical infrastructure installation, including rack-and-stack and secure cabling
• Working to the security and engineering standards required within a Defence environment

What you'll need

You'll need strong infrastructure engineering experience, ideally including:

• Cisco Nexus or equivalent enterprise networking technologies
• NetApp ONTAP or comparable enterprise storage
• Hyper-V deployment within highly available environments
• VMware Cloud Foundation, ideally VCF 5+
• Windows Server 2022/2025
• Understanding of AD, DNS and PKI
• Experience with HSM/KMS technologies would be beneficial
• Experience delivering physical infrastructure, including rack-and-stack and cabling

Due to the nature of the project, you'll need to have active DV Clearance.

If your background covers networking, storage and virtualisation and you're comfortable delivering infrastructure hands-on within a secure Defence environment, this is an opportunity to work across the full infrastructure build rather than being limited to one technology area.