Title:  IT Principal Engineer - Infosec

Job Title:      IT Principal Engineer - Infosec
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 implementation of novel IT solutions.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Enhance and maintain the Identity & Infosec components as an Enterprise Platform
• Lead the development and maintenance of standards for the platforms and services we use globally
• 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 in designing, developing, deploying and operating enterprise level Identity & Information Security services, M365 & Azure.
• Ability to lead and guide technical teams adopting an Agile approach to Product led deliveries.
• The ability to engage with cross-section stakeholders of both technical and non-technical audiences
• 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.

Why join QinetiQ?

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. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.  

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits.  You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more. 

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. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

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.