Senior Deployment and Integration Engineer

Senior Deployment & Integration Engineer (Permanent)

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Location:Prestwick, Scotland
Working pattern: Full-time, Mon-Fri + regular on-call rota (from home) once trained
Salary: Up to £60,000 (base)
Eligibility: Must be eligible to obtain SC Clearance

The Opportunity
We're supporting a leading global technology and consulting organisation in the Critical National Infrastructure space, seeking a Senior Deployment and Integration Engineer to join an onsite support team in Prestwick. You'll play a key role in the deployment, integration and support of operational systems that underpin UK critical national infrastructure.
This is a customer-facing role combining Linux, virtualisation, networking, automation and troubleshooting, working closely with both onsite stakeholders and offshore engineering teams.
What You'll Be Doing
Providing 3rd line (expert) support for operational ATM systems, including incident investigation and root-cause analysis
Collaborating with offshore development teams to diagnose and resolve complex issues
Supporting deployment and maintenance of training, test and operational environments
Acting as an engineering focal point during integration and validation activities with operational end users
Deploying and integrating hardware/software into customer and internal environments
Producing technical documentation (procedures, high-level designs, network designs)
Building strong relationships with customer stakeholders and helping identify improvement opportunities
What We're Looking For (Essential)
Experience with integration testing of software systems
Strong background in a formal IT infrastructure environment
Linux (ideally RHEL)
Virtualisation: VMware and/or KVM
Log analysis and troubleshooting
Scripting: Bash/shell and/or Python
Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, multicast, routing
Network troubleshooting xwzovoh tools: tcpdump, Wireshark
Software installation & fault-finding
Automation/provisioning: Ansible or Puppet
Confident communicator-able to explain technical topics to mixed technical/non-technical stakeholders
Strong customer-facing skills; calm under pressure
Willingness to travel occasionally (business need)
Desirable
Containers: Docker / Kubernetes
Experience working across highly distributed teams
Benefits: 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays (buy/sell), 4%/4% pension, private medical (incl. dental/optical), life assurance, income protection, cycle to work, EAP, learning & development, social events