Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Engineer

The UK National Security, Defence and Intelligence Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a DevOps Engineer to work remotely. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience supporting the Metropolitan Police mission.

In this role, you will support the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of cloud-based platforms and delivery pipelines.

You will work closely with engineering and platform teams to automate infrastructure, enhance CI/CD processes, and maintain reliable, scalable environments. This position is hands-on and requires strong technical capability across cloud platforms, automation, and containerised environments.

Your role and Primary Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and YAML configurations

• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform

• Deploy, manage, and support Azure services across IaaS and PaaS environments

• Automate routine operational and deployment tasks

• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure, applications, and deployment pipelines

• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot applications running in Kubernetes environments

• Use kubectl commands to manage deployments, pods, services, and namespaces

• Investigate issues using logs, exec, and describe commands

• Perform rollouts, restarts, and scaling activities

• Work with containerised applications (Docker or similar)

• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve build, release, and deployment processes

• Contribute to platform stability, performance, and security

• Support technical documentation (runbooks, deployment guides)

• Contribute to well-structured release notes

• Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role

• Strong Microsoft Azure experience

• CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins)

• Terraform experience

• YAML proficiency

• Kubernetes experience

• Strong use of kubectl commands

• Containerisation experience (Docker or similar)

• Scripting (PowerShell/Bash)

• Experience working with Jira in Agile environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Confluence experience

• Azure Monitor / Log Analytics experience

• Cloud security and governance understanding

• CI/CD best practices knowledge

• FinOps awareness

• Experience in enterprise or government environments

Are you ready to make an impact? Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career, share your CV with us today!

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

• We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme

• Private Medical Insurance

• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)

• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

• Flexi-TIme

Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people and our community. Our mission and our values guide the way we do business. The foundations of our Leidos culture are our Values, Beliefs and Expectations by which we select, recognise and reward employees. They create the environment that drives us toward our mission.