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    It’s an exciting time to join one of our Early Careers programmes at QinetiQ. We are always looking for great people to join our team, whether you are taking your first steps in starting a career or you are looking to make a career change, we have a wide range of exciting opportunities for you.

    About the team

    QinetiQ's Communications and Networks Engineering Team are renowned for providing high quality, independent technical assistance to our customers. The team exploits their broad IT and cloud knowledge to support customers with a range of interesting and unique programmes of work. Working in a hybrid manner, from home sites and various customer locations, you will use your technical knowhow and skills to advise, formulate and deliver effective solutions, helping our customers to shape their views using technical evidence, analysis and sound judgement.

    What will I be doing?

    • The IT team provide virtualised IT infrastructure that enables customers to solve complex problems, provide specialist environments and services, primarily for defence customers. You may be a working in a multidisciplinary team with software engineers and domain experts to deliver a military command and control system or even creating virtualised training environments.
    • You will undertake a variety of tasks, primarily focused on development in Windows Server infrastructure, including design, development and administration.
    • You will learn areas such as IT virtualisation and working in Windows and Linux domains.

    Academic requirements

    You will need to have obtained a degree with a key focus on any of the disciplines listed below:

    • Computer Science
    • Information Technology
    • Networking
    • Software Development

    Additional requirements:

    Although not essential a strong interest and/or experience within IT systems would be desirable typically covering:

    • Networking
    • Cloud Technologies
    • Building IT hardware
    • Installing software

    You are likely to be passionate about understanding how IT and mobile technology works and have a general enthusiasm in new technologies

    Mandatory

    In accordance with our National Security Vetting requirements, all applicants must also be eligible for SC clearance as a minimum. 

    Please note that under immigrations rules, our Early Careers roles do not meet the legal threshold for candidates who are residents of the UK on student visas.