About this role
Salary: £100,000 - 105,000 per year
Requirements: 4–8 years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering, with a strong software engineering foundationProduction experience with Kubernetes and DockerProficiency in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScriptExperience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD, including Terraform or AnsibleUK SC clearance held or clearly eligible, with UK nationality or long-term residencyBackground in defence technology or big-tech/major-cloud SREBonus experience in drones, self-driving, robotics, or edge systems Responsibilities: Build and operate high-performance, scalable services for large-scale data platforms supporting UK government national-security deploymentsOwn production reliability end to end, including monitoring, alerting, configuration management, and upgradesDeploy new products into production and lead migrations to newer infrastructure, including air-gapped estates using an in-house continuous-delivery engineReduce operational toil through automation, using data platforms and LLM/AI tooling to build novel systemsParticipate in an on-call rotation approximately every 5 to 6 weeks from a secure facility Technologies: AIAnsibleCI/CDCloudDockerJavaJavaScriptKubernetesLLMPythonRoboticsSecurityTerraformDevOps More:
We are a global software and data analytics business offering an exciting high-profile opportunity to work on systems for UK national-security deployments across cloud, on-prem, and fully air-gapped classified networks. This role is based around secure operations and production engineering, with the opportunity to work on advanced automation and novel AI-enabled systems. UK SC clearance is required and we do not offer visa sponsorship.
last updated 32 week of 2026