Job Title: Infrastructure Engineer
Job Location: Preston – Hybrid-2 days per week onsite. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: £45,000 + depending on skills and experience
Who we are:
Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow – shaping a safer future, for all of us.
Role Description:
You will have responsibility for delivering new enabling capabilities, developing and delivering systems and services. You will be responsible for the maintaining, managing and optimising the overall performance of the infrastructure and be resolving infrastructure support issues on Linux Platforms. You will be involved in the designing, deploying, and maintenance the organization’s IT infrastructure.
Core Duties:
- Providing support with the business Infrastructure – using Linux platforms
- Design, deploy, and maintain the organization’s IT infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking, and security systems
- Use infrastructure hosting experience to physically install, configure and deploy IT hardware
- Researching problems and issues, gather information from a range of physical and informational sources, review defects on Linux platforms or assembly to gain a complete understanding of the problem and all relevant circumstances
- Administering a virtualised production environment using common industry toolsets
Essential Skills:
- Experience Installing, configuring & supporting Linux operating systems – Ubuntu, RedHat
- Good experience in automation scripting toolsets and methodologies (e.g. ansibles and Semaphore)
- Experience in patching Linux systems and applications across large scale estates
- Creation of hardened templates for Linux systems to best practise standards
- Proven experience in security vulnerability issues through Linux infrastructure
- Experience with a variety of IT administration & management applications
The Infrastructure Engineer team:
We have responsibility for delivering new enabling capabilities, developing and delivering systems and services. Resolving infrastructure support issues, maintenance and overall management of the overall performance of infrastructure. Customers are our internal engineering and product teams and we will work to bridge the gap between infrastructure and software development and drive efficiency through high levels of automation. Whilst technology-delivery is core to our role, so too is the appreciation of how we enable the business and service availability.
Why BAE Systems?
Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work – this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family – support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.
A place where everyone can thrive:
We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date: 3rd July 2026
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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