Infrastructure Engineer/SRE - SC Cleared - London (hybrid)
Staffworx Ltd
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
yesterday
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Junior Compensation
£ 100KJob location
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Java
JavaScript
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
Cloud Computing
Configuration Management
Computer Engineering
Continuous Integration
Software Debugging
Linux
Distributed Systems
Python
Ansible
Large Language Models
SC Clearance
Kubernetes
Terraform
Docker
Go
Job description
- 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
Requirements
- 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
Benefits & conditions
London HQ and home base - to £100K, bonus, share scheme Full Time Posted by: Staffworx Limited Posted: Thursday, 16 July 2026 Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location
Global Software Solution Provider, support the UK Government's most critical national security missions. Their UK infrastructure team is expanding and hiring engineers now.