Market leading intelligence team based in Guildford requires a Systems Engineer with a strong cx background to aid in the design, test and deployment of our solution into our customers' networks.
This role will involve high levels of interaction with both internal and external stakeholders, a significant amount of autonomy in finding the solutions to complex software and hardware problems, and strong analytical skills. The successful candidate will be responsible for owning the system requirements and system-level architecture, coordinating with the various development, test and deployment teams, and also some hands-on aspects - including setting up and configuring hardware, deploying the system to internal testing or customer premises, and training customers in the system's use.
This is a hybrid working role -based from the Guildford office, but largely home-based.
You will be responsible for:
- Working within a large sized (~40) multi-disciplinary team.
- Customer & project based Systems Engineering.
- Requirements analysis, evolution and development.
- Customer liaising and being a technical lead and authority for projects .
- Rapid proto-typing and development of demonstration systems.
- Technical contribution to bids including estimation.
- Customer support, fault investigation and troubleshooting.
You will have:
- A broad technical background: someone who can investigate, design, deploy and test software and platforms.
- Experience with designing production systems. Methods of business continuity, disaster proofing, load balancing, data replication/backup and HA.
- Strong background on the Linux command line and configuration of core Linux system services.
- Strong knowledge of networking, common protocols, telecommunications networking, OSI model and traffic analysis.
- Strong experience with virtualization and orchestration technologies (for example VMWare, Openstack, AWS).
- Experience with KVM, ESXI and Xen hypervisors.
- Configuration management technologies (Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc).
- Experience with designing, configuring and maintaining statistics monitoring solutions such as ELK, TICK stacks. Preferably experience with Logstash, InfluxDB and Grafana.
- Experience deploying and testing server hardening and security benchmarks such as CIS.
The package:
- You'll receive a very competitive salary (£££ offered depends on level of experience) and other benefits including pension, life assurance and 25 days' (plus bank holidays). In addition there are other non-tangible benefits including a commitment to training, development and career development.
*** Please note these roles require UK defence security clearance to SC level as a minimum, you must be SC clearable to apply for this role ***
JAM Recruitment is acting as an employment agency with regards to this position.
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