Infrastructure Engineer

Job summary

The Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer builds and operates secure, reliable infrastructure and information systems supporting defence, security, and emergency-sector projects. The role spans software, infrastructure, and integration, including cloud platform management, Infrastructure-as-Code automation, container deployment, and improving testing and release workflows. Engineers also advise on networks, security, and databases, and use system and application metrics to support performance tuning and fault finding.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience building or operating systems on cloud, virtualised, or on-prem infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or CloudFormation and an automation or configuration management tool such as Ansible.
• Ability to build and deploy versioned containers to a container orchestration service.
• Scripting or coding experience in at least one of Python, Golang, JavaScript, or Bash.
• Awareness of secure system design and frameworks such as the NCSC Cloud Security Principles or equivalent.
• Ability to improve system reliability, security, and maintainability through engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage cloud platforms for ongoing projects.
• Create reliable systems and services using automation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Improve development workflows through testing and release procedures.
• Provide expertise on networks, security, and databases.
• Analyse operating system and application metrics to support performance tuning and fault finding.

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