At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and deliver secure digital solutions while ensuring product quality.
- Company: Join a leading tech firm focused on critical operations and security.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, highest security clearance, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with excellent career advancement in a highly governed environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in secure environments with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Strong understanding of networking, infrastructure, and experience with IaC tools.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
QA Test Infrastructure Engineer - Chelmsford, Onsite - Outside IR35 - Highest Security Clearance
As a QA Test Infrastructure Engineer, you'll help design, build, and deliver secure digital solutions in highly secure environments.
You'll work alongside engineers, architects, and delivery specialists to develop technology that enables faster, safer decision‑making for critical operations.
Role includes
- Ensuring quality of products as they move from prototype/proof of concept into Production.
- Analyse infrastructure requirements and architectures; identify test conditions; maintain traceability; log risks.
- Create infrastructure‑focused test strategies and plans defining scope, environments, tooling, automation, and governance entry/exit criteria.
- Provision and validate test environments in collaboration with Dev Sec Ops, ensuring OS, network, platform services, monitoring, and pipelines align to readiness standards.
- Design and execute tests across physical infrastructure and Ia C, including functional, integration, regression, resilience, non‑functional, and security‑related scenarios.
- Apply Secure‑by‑Design principles; support security testing; contribute to accreditation, assurance, and compliance documentation.
Key Responsibilities Required
Infrastructure, Networking & Operating Systems
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, switching, firewalls, VLANs, and related network behaviours.
- Experience with physical infrastructure setup and troubleshooting (routers, switches, cabling).
- Proficiency with Linux/Unix command line for diagnostics, configuration, and validation.
- Experience working across virtualisation platforms (VMware, Virtual Box) and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Infrastructure as Code (Ia C)
- Terraform: writing/validating HCL, managing state, using modules.
- Ansible: building playbooks/roles, inventories, and validating idempotency.
- Kubernetes: deploying workloads, validating manifests, managing clusters, and testing containerised applications.
- CI/CD & Automation
- Familiarity with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Git Lab CI, Git Hub Actions).
- Experience integrating Ia C validation and environment checks into automated pipelines.
- Understanding of pipeline gating, automated readiness checks, and environment orchestration.
- Security & Compliance
- Strong grounding in Secure‑by‑Design principles, IAM, least privilege, OS hardening, network segmentation, and observability.
- Experience within regulated or highly governed environments (eg, MOD or similar).
- Ability to support compliance, assurance, and accreditation activity.
Due to the nature of the organisation applicants are required to hold the Highest Level of Security Clearance.
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