At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead technical operations and ensure the stability of cloud-based training systems.
- Company: Join Raytheon UK, a leader in innovative defence technology.
- Benefits: Hybrid work model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with a focus on collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on the British Army's training with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in IT support and managing live production systems required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
hackajob is collaborating with Raytheon to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Raytheon UK is searching for a Technical Lead to join our OMNIA® Training team. As Technical Lead, you will be critical to the successful delivery of the programme, collaborating within a matrix organisation across multi-disciplinary teams. The Technical Lead role requires a customer-first mindset, strong stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to work in a multidisciplinary engineering team in a complex and evolving environment.
OMNIA are redefining the British Army’s collective training. To do that, we are looking for the best and brightest minds from across the UK. We are backed by British innovation and powered by world-class experts, like you. We are looking for individuals who want to serve. You’ll have a mission focus, and the enthusiasm and drive to deliver. You must be eligible and willing to obtain SC clearance and will be based at Warminster working in a hybrid style.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership for the live operational estate, ensuring the stability, performance, and availability of production systems and services.
- Act as the senior technical authority for service operations teams supporting cloud-based platforms, training systems, and business applications.
- Lead technical investigation and resolution of major incidents affecting live production services.
- Oversee operational support activities across infrastructure, applications, and platform services deployed in cloud environments.
- Provide technical oversight for system performance, reliability, and service resilience across the live estate.
- Manage and oversee patching and vulnerability management processes, ensuring systems are maintained in line with security policies and operational requirements.
- Work closely with engineering, DevOps, and service management teams to ensure smooth operation of CI/CD pipelines and production deployments.
- Support operational readiness for system releases, ensuring production environments are prepared for new capabilities and updates.
- Ensure monitoring, logging, and observability practices are implemented to maintain visibility of system health and performance.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to service operations teams, supporting effective troubleshooting and incident resolution.
- Contribute to continual service improvement by identifying operational risks, performance issues, and opportunities for optimisation.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Experience providing first-line IT support within a service desk or technical support environment.
- Proven experience supporting and managing live production systems within complex defence, government or regulated enterprise or cloud environments.
- Strong technical expertise in cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS and their operational support models.
- Experience supporting containerised applications and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker or OpenShift).
- Experience diagnosing and resolving complex production incidents across infrastructure, platforms, and applications.
- Strong understanding of DevOps and CI/CD practices supporting deployment and operation of modern platforms.
- Experience managing system patching and vulnerability remediation activities in operational environments.
- Experience working with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Experience coordinating technical activities across engineering, support, and service management teams.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems and cloud-based services.
- Experience supporting operational environments governed by ITIL service management practices.
Desirable Skills and Experience:
- Experience supporting cloud-based environments (e.g. Azure, AWS) or hybrid infrastructure.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Grafana, ELK stack, Prometheus).
- Experience supporting users within secure or regulated environments.
- Experience supporting users during operational events, exercises, or high-demand periods.
