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.
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:
1. Enhance and maintain the Identity & Infosec components as an Enterprise Platform
2. Lead the development and maintenance of standards for the platforms and services we use globally
3. Design and maintain system security at all times applying an approach of automate first when developing, implementing or supporting IT solutions
4. Act as the lead engineer for systems and services taking accountability for service cost, value, availability, lifecycle and the development of suitable roadmaps
5. Provide technical leadership and act as a principal source of technical knowledge and expertise
6. Liaise with vendors that provide widely used enterprise software and small development teams within the business complying with configuration control requirements
This role is a full-time position based at either our Malvern or Farnborough site and is Hybrid working.
Essential experience of the IT Principal Engineer:
7. Extensive experience in designing, developing, deploying and operating enterprise level Identity & Information Security services, M365 & Azure.
8. Ability to lead and guide technical teams adopting an Agile approach to Product led deliveries.
9. The ability to engage with cross-section stakeholders of both technical and non-technical audiences
10. Extensive experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IAC), Bicep, PowerShell, CI/CD pipelines, Json, ADO, DSC, Confluence and code repos
Qualifications for the IT Principal Engineer:
11. A Technical Degree (Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or equivalent) or relevant technical experience
Our Benefits
12. Adaptive and flexible working
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance
15. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
16. Employee discount portal
17. Holiday Trading
18. Support for the Armed Forces community
19. Payroll Giving and Volunteering
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.