About this role
Salary: £50,000 - 50,000 per year
Requirements
- Strong infrastructure engineering background, including Infrastructure as Code and automation
- Hands-on experience with Ansible or similar automation tooling and best-practice infrastructure design
- Practical security mindset, including compliance, assurance testing and secure-by-design principles
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment
- Eligibility to obtain or hold BPSS and SC clearance, subject to ITAR and UK Eyes Only restrictions
- Desirable: experience with Aruba or Cisco networking, Palo Alto, VMware, Windows Server or Client, or RHEL
- Desirable: defence sector experience
- Desirable: relevant certifications across the technology stack
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain Infrastructure as Code to automate infrastructure deployment, configuration and management
- Use automation tooling, ideally Ansible, in secure or air-gapped environments
- Produce scalable, resilient, secure, reusable and maintainable infrastructure patterns
- Monitor performance and drive continuous improvement in line with a release roadmap
- Work with security specialists to ensure compliance with corporate and product security controls
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams, including hardware and software engineers, maintainers, end users and security engineers
Technologies
- Ansible
- Aruba
- Cisco
- Hardware
- RHEL
- Security
- VMware
- Windows
- DevOps
More
We are a leading organisation in the defence and security sector, and our Synthetic Training and Engineering Products team is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer. This is a 12-month contract based full time on site in Warton, Lancashire, near Preston, with a 37-hour working week. The role focuses on Infrastructure as Code, automation and secure delivery of synthetic training device infrastructure. The position is inside IR35. Reference: 610208.
last updated 46 week of 2026