Principal Systems Engineer

The Leonardo Cyber Security Division is looking to recruit Principal Systems Engineers to join its new Yeovil based engineering team with responsibility for the design and build of a variety of classified ICT products and solutions for use within defence, government or public sector organisations.

What you’ll do as a Principal Systems Engineer:

As a Principal Systems Engineer, you will typically be leading the technical work and small teams within a large team on the design, development and testing of secure systems, including, but not limited to; Information Management Systems, Command and Control systems, Security Monitoring of IT, IoT and CNI systems and services.

In this role you will have the opportunity to take ownership/implement the engineering delivery of one or more work packages, including the planning, estimation, execution and progress reporting of own workload and that of other team members.

Key Responsibility Areas:

• System Design – you will contribute to system design and low-level design using technical experience, judgement and best practice;
• Development, integration and test of system solutions including development of scripts in support of system automation and integration;
• Progress and status reporting to internal customers;
• Configuration and administration of system security tools including SIEM systems, IDS/IPS, Endpoint Detection and Response and others;
• Troubleshooting system issues and faults to diagnose problems and offer proposed solutions;
• Implementation of security control measures, including enabling operating system lockdown controls;
• Development of systems engineering artefacts, including documentation to support the delivery and maintenance of system solutions;
• Mentoring other team members in area of specialism;
• Providing specialist technical support to the business unit, supporting the project or wider programme (potential involvement in bid development/evaluation);
• Working with external third parties such as vendors / resellers, to develop robust & costed solutions.

What we need from you:

• The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience within a systems engineering or IT solution delivery role, and preferably working in a secure environment.
• You will possess a strong all round technical ability with an excellent working knowledge of network and systems infrastructure technologies.
• An awareness of cyber security capabilities is advantageous.
• The role absolutely requires the candidate to be cleared to be a sole UK national with DV clearance.

It would be nice if you had:

Good working knowledge and experience of Wintel IT systems with a broad scope of skills and experience of mainstream IT infrastructure services and components including:

• Microsoft Active Directory services
• Hands on working knowledge and experience of Windows and Linux server installation and builds
• Virtualisation technologies including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V
• Workstation builds and deployments including Microsoft WDS and MDT
• A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite of products
• A good working knowledge of the following Microsoft Products (e.g. Exchange, SQL, SCOM, ISA/TMG, IIS, SharePoint)
• Practical experience of implementing security policies and system lockdowns including Microsoft Active Directory GPOs, application whitelisting/blacklisting and device/media control
• Implementation and management of enterprise class Patching/Update solution including Microsoft WSUS