Infrastructure Engineer/SRE - SC Cleared - London (hybrid)

Staffworx Ltd
London, UK
26 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience required
1 year minimum
Compensation
£100,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) JavaScript (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Configuration Management Computer Engineering Continuous Integration Software Debugging Linux Distributed Systems Python (Programming Language)
+7 more
Ansible Large Language Models SC Clearance Kubernetes Terraform Docker Golang

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.

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