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Job Title – IT Systems Engineer

Job Location – Burgess Hill

Job ID – 34029

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

Operating at 11 sites in the United Kingdom, L3Harris supports Britain's mission to secure and strengthen the country by delivering sovereign innovation across the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains.

L3Harris in Burgess Hill are part of our Maritime UK business - a leading global supplier of integrated marine control systems and simulation products for warships, submarines and high-end commercial marine vessels worldwide. Our Maritime UK business has four UK location and together we are powering the Royal Navy’s adoption of autonomous surface vehicle technology as well as delivering autonomous capability to UK ports, harbours and offshore energy service providers.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• Hybrid working where possible, 60% of our time over a one month period should be spent onsite
• Half day finish on a Friday
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 8% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, travel insurance and electric car scheme
• Employee Family Assistance Program providing mental health and wellbeing support
• Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Perform System Administration and maintenance for development environments and delivered systems.
• Install and test mandated updates (patching) in a reference facility prior to customer system update.
• Provide support to remote System Administrators for installed systems.
• Define, configure, test, deploy and document IT solutions in support of development contracts.
• Maintain awareness of IT best practice for physical and virtual environments, system security, network infrastructure, backup, disaster recovery and recommend upgrades and improvements.
• Liaise with corporate IT as required.
• Assist with the specification of IT requirements to support software installation on both internal and customer systems.
• Manage software licensing for developed systems software including initial procurement, renewals and upgrades.
• To be responsible for the deployment of IT solutions.
• Maintain backups of development and in-build systems
• Adhere to company and contractual standards and processes applicable to IT and system security requirements.

What you’ll bring 

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 3 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 5 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience
• Knowledge of virtual environments and setup (e.gg. VMWare, ESXi, Citrix), PC setup, RAOD, backup utilities (e.g. VEEAM), OS installation and setup.
• Knowledge of project management
• PC skills – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, SharePoint, Visio. 
• Confident and proactive communicator
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to integrate into a team environment

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

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L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination and offers equal opportunities for all. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.