Software Engineer
On-siteCrawley, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Support and maintain the infrastructure underpinning an on-premise hosted AI platform, ensuring services remain secure, reliable, and available. Monitor platform health and performance, investigating and resolving issues as part of day-to-day service support. Carry out routine maintenance and lifecycle activities, including patching, upgrades, and scale-out operations across physical servers, virtualization layers, and operating system environments. Work with engineering, security, and service teams to support a resilient, supportable, and well-governed platform while contributing to technical documentation and operational standards. Identify opportunities to improve reliability, supportability, and efficiency across the platform. This role is part of the UK Digital Competence Centre's dedicated AI platform capability, focusing on secure, resilient infrastructure for business-critical solutions.
Required Qualifications
- Experience working with Windows Server operating systems
- Experience with Unix-based operating systems, particularly Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Experience with VMware ESXi and/or other hypervisors
- Experience supporting containerised environments, particularly Kubernetes
- Incident and problem management, troubleshooting and working within change management procedures
- Good understanding of core networking principles
- Ability to demonstrate a good understanding of application and operating system lifecycle management
- Experience supporting infrastructure in an enterprise or operational environment
- Good understanding of platform and infrastructure support principles
- Security Clearance (SC)
- It is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment
- To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years
- In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years' residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with build and CI/CD tools and pipeline (BitBucket/ Github)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Ansible
- Active ability and interest in scripting languages
- HP Enterprise hardware
- Agile working methodologies
- Active Directory
- PowerBI
- Solid understanding of APIs and their function
Hiring someone like this?
Get your role in front of qualified candidates on Sorce.