Infrastructure Engineer

An exciting high profile opportunity for an Infrastructure Engineer to join a global software and data analytics business to work on Systems for UK national-security deployments across cloud, on-prem, and fully air-gapped classified networks. UK SC clearance required (held or eligible).

The Role

1. Build and operate high-performance, scalable services powering large-scale data platforms for UK government national-security deployments.
2. Own production reliability end-to-end: monitoring, alerting, configuration management, upgrades.
3. Deploy new products into production and lead migrations onto newer infrastructure, including into air-gapped estates via an in-house continuous-delivery engine.
4. Eliminate operational toil with automation, using data platforms and LLM/AI tooling to build novel systems.
5. On-call rotation roughly every 5–6 weeks, run from a secure facility.

The Ideal Profile

1. 4–8 years in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering, with a genuine software-engineering core — you build production systems, not just operate them.
2. Production Kubernetes/Docker experience.
3. Proficient in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript; IaC (Terraform/Ansible) and CI/CD.
4. UK SC clearance held or clearly eligible (UK nationality or long-term residency). No visa sponsorship.
5. Background in defence tech or big-tech/major-cloud SRE.
6. Bonus: drones, self-driving, robotics, or edge systems.