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DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer
Roke Manor Research · Gloucester, ENG, United Kingdom
Gloucester, ENG, United KingdomOnsite
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Gloucester, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The DevOps & Infrastructure Lead role is centered on delivering and maintaining high-throughput, high-capacity data platforms for National Security customers, utilizing both on-premise and cloud solutions. Key responsibilities include leading DevOps practices, developing CI/CD pipelines with tools like ArgoCD, and implementing observability using Prometheus and Grafana, while mentoring engineers to ensure secure and reliable service delivery.
Benefits
30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
Qualifications
- strong DevOps or infrastructure engineering background, with experience leading technical teams
- experience delivering secure cloud-based infrastructure and services, alongside on-premise platform environments
- infrastructure-as-code experience using Terraform and Helm, with automation or tooling development using Go
- container and orchestration experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm and related deployment tooling
- CI/CD and GitOps tooling experience, ideally including ArgoCD and automated deployment pipelines
- good understanding of observability, monitoring and alerting using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, alongside security, networking, logging, secrets management and operational assurance
- able to learn new technologies quickly and help others adopt them safely and effectively
Responsibilities
- lead a team developing, operating and continuously improving secure on-premise and cloud data platform capabilities
- partner with engineering and customer technical leaders to shape platform, infrastructure and delivery roadmaps
- lead the design, development and operation of high-throughput, high-capacity on-premise data platforms and associated cloud-based solutions
- develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows and automated deployment approaches using tools such as ArgoCD
- implement and improve observability using Prometheus, Grafana, logging and alerting to support resilient platform operations
- use infrastructure-as-code and platform automation with Helm, Go and Terraform to deliver repeatable, assured environments
- mentor engineers, review technical approaches and help teams adopt modern DevOps and platform engineering practices
- lead and contribute to agile ceremonies, keeping delivery aligned to user needs, operational constraints and security expectations
Skills
Argo CDDockerGoGrafanaHelmKubernetesPrometheusTerraform
Security clearance
Valid eDV clearance is required for this post
Relocation
No