Infrastructure Engineer – Virtual Networks

Infrastructure Engineer – Virtual Networks – St Neots (PE19 6BN) – Perm – Full Time * 25 days annual leave (inclusive of up to 3 days December shut-down) * Buy or sell up to 5 days’ annual leave * Two pension schemes to choose from * Private Medical & Dental Insurance + discounts for additional family members * Life Assurance scheme up to 4 x salary * Multiple Save schemes * Electric/Hybrid Car leasing scheme * Cycle to work scheme * Retail discounts * Continuous Professional development support * Annual Wellness Allowance Our Digital Services Group (DSG) is a diverse business unit that provides a full spectrum of digital capabilities and is responsible for satisfying the technological requirements of the most secure settings. They have a favourable influence on national security initiatives for the United Kingdom and its strategic partners throughout the world. Reporting to our IT Team Lead, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your abilities and expertise to work alongside our small team of IT network and infrastructure engineers in supporting both internal and external projects. You will be based at our Cambridgeshire Head Office, but this is primarily a field-based role with regular UK travel and occasional overseas travel, depending on customer location. The invaluable experience you’ll bring Working directly with the Hyper Converged Infrastructure engineer taking ownership of hardware / software defined networking including configuration, design, implementation and continual service enhancements. Leading the functions linked with MASS's software defined networking and creating efficient solutions that use best practices. Essential Experience: * Proven experience with SDDC and VMware vSphere cluster management. * Demonstrated experience in designing and deploying NetApp Storage solutions with VMware. * Hyper-V Deployments, Setup, Configuration and Fail over Cluster Configurations * Hands-on experience with VMware NSX-T for software-defined networking. * Proficient in Linux-based CLI, VMware PowerCLI, and NetApp CLI (ONTAP). * Strong background in creating and managing automations in VMware vSphere. * 1+ years supporting a multi-site network environment to include LAN, WAN, VPN, Microsoft, SAN, DR Systems. * Ideally previous experience of working for an IT service provider in a professional services environment. * Able to gather relevant information systematically to troubleshoot and resolve issues * Experience with monitoring systems Nice to Haves In addition, it would be nice to have one or more of the following abilities and be open to learning new technologies, such as: * VCP-DCV (VMware Certified Professional – Data Centre Virtualization) * VCAP-DCV Deploy (VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Centre Virtualization Deploy) * VCP-NV (VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization) * NetApp Certified (relevant NetApp certification) How you’ll support us This role will contain some elements of On Call dependant on project requirements. Our non-negotiables: Due to the highly secure nature of the projects that you will be involved with, you must be: * A UK National and eligible to work in the UK * Eligible to obtain and maintain a UK Government DV-level security clearance How MASS can support you Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our people are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive employee assistance programme. Apply today to see how working for MASS could work for you