Job Title: Principal Engineer
Location: Farnborough or Malvern / Hybrid
Package: Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type: Full-time / Permanent
Role ID: SF17244
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.
Day-to-day, you will:
* Lead the development and maintenance of standard 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.
This role is a full-time position based at either our Malvern or Farnborough site and is Hybrid working.
Essential experience of the Principal Engineer:
* Extensive experience with Cloud services within an enterprise level IT environment such as; M365, Azure and Identity and Information Security.
* 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 Infrastructure as Code (IAC), Bicep, PowerShell, CI/CD pipelines, Json, ADO, DSC, Confluence and code repos.
Qualifications for the 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
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.
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.
You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential.
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. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us.
Security
Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.
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