IT Engineer

Job Title:     IT Engineer

Location:    Corsham, Wiltshire

Package:    Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

Role Type:  Full-time / Permanent

Role ID:      SF17624

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as an IT Engineer with a focus on Communications, Networks, Data Analysis & Software Systems at our Corsham site where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.
 
The Role

As an IT Engineer, you will have a role that is out of the ordinary taking part in a novel programme building critical deployable IT Infrastructure within the Defence environment placing you at the heart of the modernisation of Defence’s deployable IT estate.
 
Day-to-day, you will:

• Install and maintain computer hardware and software systems that are built using Windows, VMware and Cisco products, responding to technical support calls and reacting to ITSM support application whilst proactively monitoring complex environments.
• Set up and install new virtual machines, networks and software following work instructions to change components.
• Install and configure operating systems, anti-virus software, other applications and install updates and patches to software applications.
• Diagnose and fix network problems, hardware, software faults and manage backups of servers in case of data loss.
• Work within a team and keeping a record of issues and faults along with any solutions for future reference.
• Maintain network connectivity and accurately record changes.

 
This role is a full-time position based at our Corsham site and is fully on-site with a 1 in 6 week rotation providing out of hours cover.

Essential experience of the IT Engineer:

• The ability to work on site in a small team providing incident resolution, fault finding and root cause analysis.
• Experience working/administrating virtualised environments such as VMware, Vcenter or similar virtualised environments.
• Strong experience working with different computer hardware and using and administering Microsoft AD, Group Policy and DNS.
• Experience working with Microsoft servers, Veeam backup and experience working with networks.
• Experience working in complex environments.

 
Qualifications for the IT Engineer: 

ITIL V4 Foundation, Microsoft Certified Server Associate, CCNA or relevant technical experience.

 

Please note that all applicants must hold, or be able to achieve Security Clearance as a minimum.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

 

Our Benefits

• Adaptive and flexible working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal
• Holiday Trading
• Support for the Armed Forces community
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering

 
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

 

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.  

 

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits.  You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more. 

 

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

 

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.