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: Genuine ownership from day one in a dynamic environment.
- Why this job: Join a small team with big responsibilities and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: UK SC clearance, 1-5 years in infrastructure engineering, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
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.
- 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.
Infrastructure Engineer / SRE - SC Cleared - London (hybrid) employer: Staffworx
At Staffworx, we pride ourselves on fostering a dynamic and inclusive work culture that empowers our employees to thrive. As a Senior Front-End Engineer in West London, you'll benefit from a hybrid working model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional development, all while collaborating with a talented Agile team dedicated to innovation and excellence. Join us to make a meaningful impact in a supportive environment that values your growth and contributions.
We think you need these skills to ace Infrastructure Engineer / SRE - SC Cleared - London (hybrid)
UK SC Clearance
Infrastructure Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
Ansible
