Position: Duty Engineer
Job ID: 2394/15
Location: Northallerton
Rate/Salary: Competitive Salary
Benefits: Excellent Benefits Package
Type: Permanent
HSB Technical Ltd is a specialist recruiter within the Power & Propulsion, Shipbuilding, Maritime Shipping, Energy and Subsea sectors – visit: www.hsbtechnical.com for a list of our vacancies. We have a number of permanent and contract vacancies for multiple businesses across the UK and overseas.
The below job description will outline this position of: Duty Engineer
Typically, this person will provide 24/7 operational and incident response support across secure Defence ICT environments, ensuring high availability, resilience, and compliance of critical MOD systems. The Duty Engineer will apply strong technical expertise across networking, virtualisation, security, automation, and Linux systems to maintain and support mission-critical platforms.
HSB Technical’s client is an established and well-regarded Defence-focused organisation delivering secure, high-availability ICT services to the UK MOD.
Duties and Responsibilities of the Duty Engineer:
• Provide 24/7 operational support ensuring availability, security, and performance of Defence ICT systems
• Troubleshoot and maintain LAN, WAN, MPLS, SD-WAN networks, firewalls, and VPN services
• Administer Active Directory, DNS, PKI, RDS, WSUS, and associated domain services
• Manage VMware virtualisation platforms including ESXi, vCenter, and VMware Cloud Foundation
• Operate and support ASTERIX VoIP systems
• Maintain SIEM and monitoring platforms including Splunk, SCOM/SCCM, and telemetry tools
• Perform Linux system administration, patching, and security hardening
• Develop and maintain automation using PowerShell, Ansible, and GitLab
• Support vulnerability remediation, audits, and compliance readiness
• Deliver incident response, root cause analysis, and service restoration in line with SLAs and KPIs
Qualifications and Requirements for the Duty Engineer:
• CCNA (or equivalent networking qualification)
• Strong experience with LAN, MAN/Campus networking environments
• Knowledge of BGP, MPLS, VPLS, and VPN technologies
• Experience with Software Defined Networking (VMware NSX) and SD-WAN
• Security systems experience including IDS/IPS administration
• Strong Active Directory and Microsoft infrastructure knowledge
• VMware vSphere, ESXi, and VMware Cloud Foundation experience
• SIEM and monitoring tools such as Splunk and System Centre Suite
• Linux administration and security patching experience
• Automation skills using PowerShell, Ansible, and GitLab
This vacancy is being advertised by HSB Technical Ltd, who have been appointed to act as a recruitment partner for this role.....Read more...
Network Solution Architect
Opportunity to join a sizeable, well-established and rapidly expanding ISP as a Solution Architect. The business provides IT services and solutions into Mid-Market, Enterprise scale businesses across voice, networks, connectivity, cloud and more.
You will focus primarily on WAN technologies (MPLS/WAN/SD-WAN), Data Centre Infrastructure and Network Security (Fortinet/Juniper/Cisco tech stack)
Working within a busy Pre-Sales team as a Network focused Solution Architect you will work to support the sales process, supporting sales and professional services teams by identifying customer technical and business requirements, designing and documenting recommended value-focused solutions.
Responsibilities will include:
Acting as the Technical lead on RFP's and bid reviews
Promoting the benefits and values of technical design features, mapping technical designs into business outcomes
Support Sales and Account Management teams as a Technical Consultant
Meet prospective and existing customers, to determine business and technical requirements
Produce and present Technical Solutions and supporting documentation, both high-level and low-level (Network Diagrams etc)
Effectively hand-over solutions and support delivery and operational teams
Support Product Management teams to provide input around product development
To be considered for this position you will require:
Demonstrable experience of previous Pre-Sales / Solutions Architecture
Strong examples of solution design and documentation.
Proficient in LAN, WAN, and Data Centre infrastructure, including technologies such as Switching, Routing, SD-WAN, SASE, WLAN, and SDN.
Strong experience with edge security appliances (Firewalls, IDS/IPS, DDoS), web application gateways, and load balancers.
This is a mature work culture, providing remote working and a great deal of opportunity for professional development. As such, you will need to be driven and self-managing.
Location: London (hybrid working)
The position will pay: a basic salary of up to £80k + 10% bonus.
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