Job Title: IT Principal Engineer - Modern Workplace
Location: Farnborough or Malvern / Hybrid
Package: Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type: Full-time / Permanent
Role ID: SF17309
Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as an IT Principal Engineer at our Farnborough or Malvern site where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.
The Role
As an IT Principal Engineer, you will have a role that is out of the ordinary being the technical leader of a Digital Enterprise Services Product Team supporting the Product Owner by providing experience, capability, optimisation, maintenance and the retiring of technologies that provide high quality services to our customers within Modern Workplace focusing on M365.
This is an exciting role where you will be working on a strategically important global programme of work, taking a leading role in the development and implementation of novel IT solutions.
Day-to-day, you will:
* Lead the development and maintenance of standards for the platforms and services we use.
* Design and maintain system security at all times applying an approach of automate first when developing, implementing or supporting IT solutions.
* Act as the lead engineer for systems and services taking accountability for service cost, value, availability, lifecycle and the development of suitable roadmaps.
* Provide technical leadership and act as a principal source of technical knowledge and expertise.
* Liaise with vendors that provide widely used enterprise software and small development teams within the business complying with configuration control requirements.
Essential experience of the IT Principal Engineer:
* Extensive experience with Cloud services within an enterprise level IT environment with the main focus being M365.
* The ability to work in and lead Scrum teams in an agile environment and engage with cross-section stakeholders of both technical and non-technical audiences.
* Proven experience designing, building and operating large scale distributed IT systems.
* Extensive experience working with M365, Infrastructure as Code (IAC), Bicep, PowerShell, CI/CD pipelines, Json, ADO, DSC, Confluence and code repos.
Qualifications for the IT Principal Engineer:
* A Technical Degree (Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or equivalent) or relevant technical experience.
Please note that all applicants must hold, or be able to achieve for Security Clearance as a minimum.
Benefits:
* Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance.
* Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
* Employee discount portal.
* Holiday Trading.
* Support for the Armed Forces community.
* Payroll Giving and Volunteering.
Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market.
About QinetiQ
As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most.
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