IT Principal Engineer - Modern Workplace

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 within Modern Workplace focusing on M365.

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.

Extensive experience with Cloud services within an enterprise level IT environment with the main focus being M365.

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 M365, 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.

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., 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.

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.

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.

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