Cheltenham - DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer | Defence Consultancy | London or Cheltenham | £40,000 - £80,000 + Benefits | High Level Security Clearance Required

MERITUS are working with a large Defence Consultancy looking to grow their engineering team due to a number of new project wins. They're looking for experienced Infrastructure professionals to join their DevOps team.

The successful candidates will join an experienced team working to design, build & maintain critical infrastructure & applications for UK Defence & National Security customers. To be successful you will need in depth experience in Windows & Linux server management, both on-prem & VMware solutions (cloud exposure would be highly beneficial), experience automating infrastructure using tools such as Ansible, Terraform or Puppet & scripting using PowerShell, Bash, Python or similar languages.

They have multiple roles available at both their London & Cheltenham sites & they require candidates to hold enhanced security clearance (either MOD or Central Government).

This is what you will be doing:

• Designing, building & managing secure platforms in both Windows & Linux environments.
• Automating infrastructure to improve efficiency.
• Building CI / CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git or similar).
• Deploy and maintain monitoring and observability solutions.
• Working closely with customer teams to ensure projects are on-schedule & to agreed specification.

Required Skills:

• Windows & Linux Systems Administration.
• Automation tools: Ansible, Terraform, Puppet (or similar).
• Scripting: PowerShell, Bash, Python (or similar).
• CI / CD tools: Jenkins, Git (or similar).

Salary & Benefits:

• Mid level: Up to £60,000
• Senior: Up to £80,000
• Clearance bonus of £5,000
• Annual performance bonus up to 10%
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Enhanced pension (5% employee, 10% employer)
• Flexible working policy

If you're interested in hearing more about any of these opportunities then please apply today!

Got your attention?

If you believe that you have the skills and experience for the Lead Test Engineer role - then please get in touch. We also offer a referral scheme for any candidates whose details are passed to us that we successfully place. If you have any further questions then please contact Ryan Harris at MERITUS.