Position Description: At CGI, you’ll help shape the infrastructure that underpins mission-critical defence operations. As an Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll support and enhance VMware-based environments, contribute to new platform functionality, and play a key role in delivering secure, resilient systems for our clients. Working hands-on across physical and virtual infrastructure, you’ll be trusted to take ownership of your work, encouraged to find smart solutions, and supported by a collaborative team that values your ideas. This is your opportunity to make a real impact while developing your expertise in a high-performance engineering environment.
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List and has been named a UK ‘Best Employer’ by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.
Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance. This role is based on site at our
Gloucester or Chippenham office, with occasional travel to our data centre in Farnborough. It requires five days per week on site. Your future duties and responsibilities: In this role, you will support VMware operations across a major defence platform, working closely with a Technical Lead to deliver stable, secure, and scalable environments. You’ll help build new capabilities, enhance system performance, and ensure consistent service availability. You will be encouraged to take ownership of tasks, apply creative thinking to engineering challenges, and collaborate with a supportive team to deliver high-quality technical outcomes.
You will assist with physical deployments, from installing hardware to cabling and system configuration, while contributing to documentation and the rollout of an Active Directory Domain. Your work will directly support the design, configuration, and optimisation of VMware technologies across the platform.
Key responsibilities:
Support & Engineer: Deliver VMware operations and engineering activities across target environments.
Deploy & Install: Assist with physical hardware installation, cabling, and platform build activities.
Configure & Integrate: Support VMware applications including vCentre, Aria Ops, LifeCycle Manager, ESXi, and VCF.
Monitor & Optimise: Work with Aria Ops dashboards, configure new dashboards, triage and resolve alerts.
Collaborate & Document: Produce supporting documentation and assist wider team members during deployments.
Manage & Maintain: Contribute to Active Directory Domain deployment and ongoing platform support.
Track & Report: Action and raise tickets in Jira to ensure clear visibility of work. Required qualifications to be successful in this role: To be successful, you should bring hands-on experience in VMware technologies, infrastructure implementation, and both Microsoft and Linux environments. You will need strong teamwork skills, an understanding of secure working practices, and the ability to support platform deployments confidently within a structured engineering environment.
Essential qualifications:
Experience delivering infrastructure solutions and hands-on implementation.
Working knowledge of vCentre, Aria Ops, Lifecycle Manager, VCF, and VMware ESXi.
Experience with Horizon Client, Horizon Apps, or VDI configuration.
Proficiency with Microsoft and Linux technologies.
Strong teamwork and secure working practices.
Desired:
Experience with VMware certificate management.
Exposure to GitLab configuration and support.
Familiarity with Confluence and Jira.
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