Automation Engineer

Overview

Are you ready to make a real impact in a dynamic, high-stakes environment? We\’re looking for an Automation Engineer with Satellite experience to join our team within the Aerospace, Defence, and Security sector. This is your chance to blend your software engineering and operations skills to drive automation, monitor system performance, and enhance infrastructure at scale. In this vital role, you will ensure our systems are high-performing, resilient, scalable, and secure. Your expertise will help power some of the most critical operations in the country.

This position supports our secure accounts. Ideally, you will already hold active SC clearance or higher. There is a requirement to attend site up to 5 days a week. You do need to be eligible for SC and DV Clearance. Location: Based on site in Farnborough. We can offer great career progression, flexible benefits and excellent development opportunities.

Note: This description reflects the responsibilities and requirements for the role as provided.

What you will be doing

• Collaborating as part of a cross-functional team to provide operational and engineering support for a large-scale secure cloud service.
• Developing workflows and tooling to automate processes and operations. Ensuring routine tasks are consistent, repeatable and scalable.
• Provisioning, managing and optimising infrastructure.
• Maintaining observability of the platform. Responding to alerts and incidents to ensure the availability of systems, interoperability and applications. Completing root cause analysis.
• Continually improving systems and processes to improve the efficiency of the service.
• Participating in change management and capacity planning activities.

What you will bring

• Experience in vRealize Orchestrator/ Aria Orchestrator.
• Windows and Linux sysadmin expertise.
• Competent with scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash or SQL.
• Background working with virtualization platforms to include VMWare Cloud Foundation stack or Proxmox.
• Familiarity with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (Iac), including supporting tooling such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience building Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, along with supporting tooling such as Gitlab.
• Knowledge of system interoperability and application interfaces. E.g. RESTful, API, Swagger.

It would be great if you had

• Comprehension of Event Driven Architecture (EDA) and Microservices.
• Enterprise Containerisation and Orchestration insight, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of methodologies such as Agile, DevSecOps, Scrum and Kanban. As well as the ability to put them into practice.
• Awareness of the Secure By Design framework with the ability to put it into practice.
• Networking and database administration know-how.

Additional role details

• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Farnborough on-site at least 3 days, likely 5 days a week
• Security Clearance Level: Eligible for SC and DV clearance
• Internal Recruiter: Jane
• Salary: Dependent On Experience
• Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund (3% of base salary)