3rd Line Engineer (Azure)

National Composites Centre; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A national R&D centre in Bristol is seeking a skilled 3rd Line Engineer to design and manage Azure cloud infrastructure. This role includes providing IT support, ensuring security compliance, and contributing to team growth. Ideal candidates will have Azure certifications and experience in IT operations. The position offers hybrid working, competitive salary, and benefits including a 12.5% employer pension contribution.

Benefits

12.5% employer pension contribution

Private medical cover

Flexible and hybrid working

Qualifications

• Experience in a Third Line IT Operations Engineer role.
• Good Azure Administration skills.
• Experience supporting iPhones and iPads.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage Azure cloud infrastructure and services.
• Implement and manage security measures and compliance regulations.
• Monitor resource usage for performance and cost optimization.

Skills

Azure certifications

Systems monitoring and reporting

Azure Administration

Active Directory User and Security administration

Networking and VLANs infrastructure

Education

Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)

Tools

System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM)

Firewalls and VPN technologies

Backup and recovery systems

Job description

3rd Line Engineer (Azure)

NCC

Location: Emersons Green, Bristol, BS16 7FS

Hybrid Working: 2 days on site, 3 days homeworking

Salary: £45,084 to £63,750 per annum experience dependent + 12.5% employer pension + package

Security Clearance Requirements: due to the nature of our business, employment is subject to a level of government security clearance.

Closing Date: 22nd December – We reserve the right to close this advert early if required.

We’re a national R&D centre - government-backed, not-for-profit, and mission-driven. We work across 16 sectors and over 100 partners a year. Our people are here to deliver outcomes that matter, and you’ll be involved supporting our teams so they can deliver.

Our IT department is expanding and we need an additional 3rd Line Engineer to provide business as usual IT support and contribute towards ongoing project work.

You’ll heavily support our move to Azure cloud-based environment and contribute towards technical leadership to optimise the performance of the technology infrastructure.

Specifically you’ll;

• Design, build, and manage Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure and services to meet the NCC's needs for scalability, security, and performance.
• Implement and manage security measures, access controls, and compliance regulations to protect cloud resources.
• Monitor resource usage to ensure high performance and availability while optimizing costs by avoiding over-provisioning and implementing efficient services.
• Assist in migrating existing infrastructure to Azure if required and automating deployments and management tasks.
• Be an excellent team player and who can train and upskill the rest of the team.

Business as Usual 3rd Line Tasks:

• Acts as a subject matter expert for the design, delivery and support of the infrastructure, both on-premise and cloud solutions.
• Take responsibility for ensuring operational issues are identified, recorded, monitored and resolved.
• Oversees the planning, installation, maintenance and acceptance of new and updated infrastructure/software components and software/infrastructure-based services.
• Provide technical and procedural guidance to team members to improve service effectiveness. Maintaining relevant documentation as needed.
• Conducts investigations of significant operational outage and provides recommendations for problem mitigation.
• Investigates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes (including automation) for the management of systems and services.
• Uses security and operational risk analysis methods, tools and techniques to identify potential exposures of information systems which support critical business processes.

What we would like to see in your application:

We will preference applications from other Research & Development backgrounds or Manufacturing, but happy to consider any domain. Core experience we look for includes:

• Experience of working in a Third Line IT Operations Engineer role.
• Must have Azure certifications, at a minimum Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• Systems monitoring and reporting experience
• Good Azure Administration skills.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft desktop & server operating systems, Microsoft Office, Ethernet, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, firewalls and VPN technologies, Wireless network
• Experience of supporting iPhones and iPads
• Active Directory User and Security administration
• System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM)
• Previous experience of configuration and maintenance of DFS and high availability services for file shares and SFTP
• Prior experience of managing 3-tier of Hyperconverged infrastructure
• Comprehensive understanding of Networking and VLANs infrastructure
• Experience of implementing and maintaining Backup and recovery systems
• Patch management including OS and Applications COTS and Non-COTS

Not sure if it’s a fit? Happy to have a quick chat first, please reach out to [e-mail] or via linked in. Know someone who might be right? Share them with us.

What we offer:

• 12.5% employer pension contribution
• Private medical cover
• Flexible and hybrid working as standard
• Clear routes to grow your skills and influence A team that gets things done without the drama

Why NCC?

We help manufacturers take on bigger challenges - whether that’s building cleaner aircraft, scaling up offshore wind, or strengthening the UK’s supply chains. We’re here to deliver practical outcomes, not prototypes that sit on shelves.

We work across 16 sectors, from defence and energy to infrastructure and space. Some projects are with global tier 1s, others with small UK firms solving one specific problem - the works always varied, and always real.

We’re not a startup. We’re not a corporate. We’re a national centre with the kit, time and people to do the job properly. The teams are focused, the thinking is sharp, and you’ll be trusted to get on with it.

This role isn’t just internal support - it’s part of how we deliver nationally important work. If we do our job right, the UK’s manufacturers can do theirs better.