IT Principal Engineer

Job Title:      IT 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. 
 
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 and implementation of novel IT solutions.
 
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 IT 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 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.
UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
 
Our Benefits
Adaptive and flexible working
Generous holiday allowance
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.