Global Software Solution Provider, support 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
