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Infrastructure Lead

Job details
Posting date: 26 November 2024
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 26 December 2024
Location: Pentrebach, CF48 4LA
Company: General Dynamics Lands Systems UK
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 456

Summary

Description

General Dynamics Land Systems is on the look-out for a full-time Infrastructure Lead to join our IT Team. The successful and inclusive candidate will earn a favourable salary of £54,000 to £67,500, based on experience and potential. This is an ideal role for someone who has a proactive and positive mindset and a keen desire to grow professionally. Joining an established team based at our Merthyr facility, you will work across a range of stakeholders, working as part of a Global team, a hands-on leader to drive innovation and provide technical guidance to enhance the overall infrastructure architecture in alignment with business objectives. Manage, design, implement and maintain infrastructure equipment, deliver infrastructure projects of complex configurations which includes considerations for data storage, virtualization, collaboration, applications, networks and operating systems. If you were already working in this position, this is what you would have been working on this week:
  • Lead and Champion GDLS Shared Service IT Infrastructure change activities.
  • Be the point of contact for infrastructure related enquiries.
  • Hands-on Infrastructure configuration, change and management.
  • Deploy scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems.
  • Develop and maintain policies, procedures, and standards.
  • Ensure the continuity of business operations through infrastructure resilience, disaster recovery planning for IT related applications and systems, and proactive troubleshooting.
  • Manage and monitor Azure, M365, Oracle cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance.
  • Responsible for strategic infrastructure planning, capacity management, and evaluating emerging technologies to keep the GDUK ahead of technological advancements.
  • Derives captures, analyzes and translates complex IT and business requirements / directions into supporting and enabling information technology architecture and projects, to meet both tactical short term and strategic long term business objectives.
To apply for this role, you will require the following:
  • A deep understanding of networking principles, including local and wide area networking (LAN/WAN), network protocols, routing and switching, network security, and performance optimisation.
  • Systems Architecture and Design: Understanding how to develop and implement scalable, reliable, and secure network infrastructures.
  • Cloud Computing and Virtualization: Proficiency in cloud platforms like Azure and virtualization technologies such as VMware or Hyper-V.
  • Automation and Orchestration: Using scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell) and orchestration tools (Aria) to automate tasks and manage complex deployments.
  • Operating Systems: Proficiency in various operating systems, including Linux, Windows Server, and UNIX.
  • Database Management: Managing, storing, and securing company data effectively
  • Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure and multiple cloud technologies with the ability to operate in and migrate across public and private clouds (Azure, Oracle, M365).
  • Infrastructure and Security risk identification and management.
  • Identification of Infrastructure bottlenecks and required performance engineering.
  • Willingness to work with other IT team members, GDUK employees and 3rd parties to achieve successful business outcomes.
  • Essential criteria:
  • M365 administration Entra ID, Endpoint/Intune, Exchange, SharePoint & Teams.
  • Utilize Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to protect and secure endpoints.
  • Azure Policies.
  • Dell PowerEdge Servers.
  • VMWare ESXi & NSX.
  • Citrix Netscalers, Virtual Apps & Desktop, Citrix Hypervisor.
  • Active Directory (AD/DNS).
  • Pure Storage.
  • Microsoft SQL Clustering.
Our Company Benefits: We pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose, offering highly competitive benefits:
  • A compressed nine-day fortnight – which means every other Friday off!
  • A flexible benefits scheme - allowing you to adapt your benefits to suit yours and your family’s needs
  • A personalised career development plan, alongside regular progress reviews - supporting and valuing your progression within the Company
  • Professional training and development courses, both internal and external - allowing you to reach your full potential
  • A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognised and rewarded, which includes compressed hours, reduced hours and job share
  • A Company sports and social club, offering events at discounted prices – giving you the opportunity to meet and socialise with your fellow colleagues outside the workplace
About General Dynamics UK General Dynamics Land Systems is a global leader in providing products and support across the full spectrum of combat vehicles. Our global team has more than 6,000 employees working towards creating a diverse product portfolio delivering best-in-class capability to Armed Forces communities worldwide. In the UK, we employee more than 650 people and are leading the way in Armoured Fighting Vehicles and sustainment services. Our vision is documented and embedded into our culture, so all employees understand the Company’s direction and their role in achieving it. We are currently delivering the AJAX programme, providing 589 Armoured Fighting Vehicles in six variants to the British Army and have also developed and delivered 400 Foxhound vehicles - a highly-protected and mobile 4x4 platform with high-deployment availability. We believe in maintaining a diverse workplace – inclusive of beliefs, cultural background, job experiences, thoughts and ideas. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high performance team

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