Site Reliability / Infrastructure Engineer - Defence & Government

JLA Resourcing Ltd
London, UK
25 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Starter
Experience required
1 year minimum
Compensation
£90,000.0 - £105,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) JavaScript (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Bash Shell Cloud Computing Configuration Management Software Debugging DevOps Distributed Systems Python (Programming Language) Reliability Engineering Software Engineering
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SC Clearance Kubernetes Information Technology Software Coding Golang

Job description

You’ll work across software and infrastructure, taking responsibility for building, operating and improving large-scale production environments.

You’ll be involved in:

  • Building and engineering scalable, highly available infrastructure
  • Working extensively with Kubernetes and AWS
  • Developing code and automation to improve infrastructure and remove manual processes
  • Influencing infrastructure architecture and systems design
  • Operating and improving distributed production systems
  • Monitoring, alerting, configuration management and platform upgrades
  • Debugging complex production issues and engineering long-term solutions
  • Deploying new systems and managing infrastructure migrations
  • Working alongside software engineers and forward-deployed technical teams
  • Balancing project-based engineering with operational responsibility, including an on-call rotation of approximately 1 week in 5

Requirements

They’re expanding their London engineering team and looking for an Infrastructure Engineer with a strong software engineering foundation who enjoys building systems, solving complex production problems and improving infrastructure through code and automation. This would particularly suit someone from an SRE, Software Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering background who wants to work on technically challenging, high-impact projects., We’re particularly interested in engineers who combine software engineering skills with strong infrastructure knowledge, rather than purely operational DevOps experience. Ideally, you’ll have:

  • Active UK SC clearance - this is a key requirement
  • Around 1-3+ years’ experience within SRE, Infrastructure, Platform or Software Engineering
  • A Computer Science degree or similarly strong technical/software engineering background
  • Hands-on Kubernetes experience
  • AWS/cloud infrastructure experience
  • Strong coding and automation skills - Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, Bash
  • Experience building infrastructure and production systems, not simply administering them
  • An understanding of distributed systems, scalability and reliability
  • Experience troubleshooting and debugging complex production environments
  • The confidence to contribute to architecture and challenge how systems are designed and operated

Previous experience within Defence, Defence Technology or UK Government environments is essential.

This is a fast-moving, high-autonomy engineering environment, so we’re looking for people who enjoy taking ownership, learning quickly and solving difficult technical problems.

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