As a Systems Architect for our client, you'll join an expanding Corporate Services IT department that supports mission-critical work completed by over 1000 end users across hundreds of servers. The unique nature of the business areas you and your team will support create complex and often time-critical demands to deliver effective, reliable, and enduring IT platforms across 'conventional' on-premise systems, cloud computing, and 'air-gapped' systems.

Our client is a leading technology and engineering company with clients spanning National Security, Defence, and Industry 4.0 through their Futures business and Intelligence as a Service. You will work alongside their customers to solve complex and unique challenges.

As a Systems Architect, you'll be understanding, maintaining, and developing specific aspects of an enterprise IT environment; encompassing tasks across technical design, implementation, and support.

Key Experience

Systems engineering experience at technical lead level with vendor technologies such as Microsoft, Amazon (AWS), VMWare, RedHat or similar.
Able to design, support, and maintain internal IT environments, platforms, and services at SME level or above.
Awareness of Defence or National Security IT standards, a background within these domains would be preferential; including within environments that operate at multiple classification levels.
Some exposure to Solution or Enterprise Architecture methods, you do not need to be a practitioner.

Key Technologies

Below are some of the key enterprise IT technologies deployed at Roke, you do not need to be a specialist that covers all of these; training and support will be provided in time where required:

Corporate Microsoft Estate: 1000+ desktops and hundreds of servers deployed across various locations. This includes 'On-Prem' Microsoft full stack alongside 0365, Azure, and AWS offerings.
Cloud platforms: Primarily AWS and Azure covering organization design (layout), tenancy/account management, security, identity management, service provisioning, and reporting functions.
Identity and Directory services: Design, management, and maintenance of Microsoft Active Directory, OpenLDAP, KeyCloak, and Microsoft's enterprise Single Sign-On technologies.
Mobile device management: Covering 300+ deployed mobile devices, applying best practice and industry standards.
Cybersecurity and information assurance: Managing and maintaining intrusion detection apparatus, supporting queries/investigations, and 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, etc.

The Benefits and Perks

Hybrid working: A minimum of 40% of your monthly hours working at your base/client location, subject to role requirements.
Flexi-time: Working hours to suit you and your life.
Annual bonus: Based on profit share and personal performance.
Private medical insurance: Includes cover for existing conditions.
Holiday: 25 days plus public holidays and your birthday off.
Share Save: Monthly savings into a 3 or 5-year plan.

Clearances

Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve DV clearance. As a result, you should be a British Citizen and have resided in the U.K. for the last 10 years