Infrastructure Change Engineer

Description

Infrastructure Change Engineer

Location - Huntingdon UK

Clearance level - High - DV Developed Vetting

Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people and our community. Our mission and our values guide the way we do business. The foundations of our Leidos culture are our Values, Beliefs and Expectations by which we select, recognise and reward employees. They create the environment that drives us toward our mission.

We are seeking a Mid-Level Agile (SAFe) Infrastructure Engineer to maintain, optimize, and support our VMware and NetApp enterprise environment. In this role, you will manage physical hardware, vSphere compute, software-defined networking (NSX), NetApp ONTAP storage, and VMware Horizon VDI.

UNLEADH YOUR POTENTIAL

Working within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), you will collaborate daily with your Agile team to deliver infrastructure stories, automate routine tasks, and ensure high system availability. For delivery into a secure customer environment. This is a 4-5 days per week, on-site role, requiring a DV and open to UK nationals only.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Agile & SAFe Team Participation

• Contribute to PI Planning: Participate in Program Increment (PI) planning to break down features into team stories and provide accurate point estimations.

• Execute Sprint Activities: Actively engage in daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and team retrospectives.

• Manage Team Backlog: Maintain your assigned backlog items in Jira/Azure DevOps, ensuring status, technical blockers, and updates are visible.

• Deliver System Demos: Demonstrate completed infrastructure increments to the team and stakeholders at the end of each sprint.

VMware & NSX Support

• Administer VMware NSX: Maintain software-defined networking components, including basic virtual routing configurations, security groups, and micro-segmentation policies.

• Manage vSphere Environment: Handle day-to-day operations of ESXi hosts and vCenter, including provisioning virtual machines, monitoring cluster resources, and lifecycle patching.

NetApp Storage & Hardware Operations

• Manage NetApp ONTAP: Administer NetApp storage systems, including provisioning volumes, managing aggregates, configuration of protocols (NFS, iSCSI, SMB), and monitoring storage capacity.

• Data Protection: Maintain storage efficiency and data protection workflows using NetApp Snapshot, SnapMirror, and SnapVault technologies.

• Support Physical Hardware: Assist with data centre tasks, including racking servers, monitoring blade systems, and replacing faulty hardware components.

VMware Horizon VDI Operations

• Maintain Horizon VDI: Manage virtual desktop pools, assign user entitlements, and optimize master golden images for desktop performance.

• Troubleshoot User Experience: Resolve mid-level technical escalations regarding Horizon client connectivity, App Volumes, and Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) user profiles.

Automation & Maintenance

• Apply Scripting & Automation: Utilize existing PowerCLI, Ansible, or Terraform scripts to automate routine VMware provisioning and NetApp storage tasks.

• Execute Lifecycle Management: Perform regular backups, proactive system health monitoring, and patch management across physical and virtual systems.

Qualifications & Skills

Technical Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

• VMware Ecosystem: 2–4 years of hands-on experience administering VMware vSphere, VMware NSX, and VMware Horizon.

• NetApp Storage: Proven experience managing NetApp storage systems running ONTAP.

• Hardware: Experience handling enterprise server hardware (e.g., Cisco UCS, Dell PowerEdge, or HPE ProLiant).

• Basic Automation: Ability to read, modify, and run scripts using PowerCLI, PowerShell, or Ansible.

• Certifications (Preferred): VCP-DCV (Data Center Virtualization), VCP-NV (Network Virtualization), NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA), or equivalent credentials.

Agile & Framework Requirements

• SAFe Experience: 1+ years working within a Scaled Agile or Scrum team environment.

• Agile Tooling: Daily proficiency tracking work in Jira, Confluence, or Azure DevOps.

• Certifications (Preferred): Certified SAFe Practitioner (SP) or Scrum Certified.

Soft Skills

• Team Player: Eagerness to collaborate with cross-functional team members to achieve sprint goals.

• Problem-Solving: Strong troubleshooting skills to independently diagnose and fix mid-level technical issues.

Are you ready to make an impact? Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career, share your CV with us today!

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
Contributory Pension Scheme
Private Medical Insurance
33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
Flexi-TIme

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Securing Your Data

Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system – never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at [email protected].

If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.