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!

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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 Yolk Recruitment.

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