At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and maintain high-performance services for UK Government security missions.
- Company: Global Software Solution Provider with a focus on national security.
- Benefits: Excellent salary, bonus, share scheme, and hybrid working options.
- Other info: Opportunity for genuine ownership and career growth in a dynamic environment.
- Why this job: Join a small team with big responsibilities and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Experience in infrastructure engineering, Kubernetes, and programming languages like Java or Python.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Global Software Solution Provider, supporting the UK Government's most critical national security missions. Their UK infrastructure team is expanding and hiring engineers now.
The role:
- Build, operate and maintain high-performance, scalable, reliable services across UK Government deployments.
- Own production reliability: monitoring, alerting, configuration management and upgrades.
- Lead automation to reduce manual operations, using modern platforms including LLM/AI tooling.
- Deploy new products into production and run infrastructure migrations.
- Shape systems design alongside forward deployed and product teams.
What you'll need:
- UK SC clearance, or eligibility to obtain it (active SC strongly preferred; no visa sponsorship).
- 1-5 years in infrastructure engineering or SRE, building and deploying production systems - not just debugging.
- Hands-on Kubernetes/Docker in production; Terraform, Ansible or CI/CD pipeline experience.
- Proficiency in Java, Python, Go or JavaScript, applied to infrastructure or operations.
- Distributed systems, Linux and cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) experience.
- CS or computer engineering degree.
- Comfortable balancing build work with operational support - this is a build-and-run role.
- Backgrounds in defence tech, tech-forward defence contractors, or security cleared cloud/infra teams.
The package: excellent salary, bonus and share scheme. Hybrid London working with 1-2 days from home. Small UK team, big remit, and genuine ownership from day one.
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