devops engineer for defence environments

Описание:

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. It designs, builds, and operates turnkey capabilities across the full stack for partners in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

Задачи:

• Assist with designing, implementing, and operating secure, scalable Azure platform services for UK programmes and internal teams
• Own Azure DevOps or GitHub-based CI/CD standards, pipelines, release controls, and deployment automation across platform and application workloads
• Architect and manage Azure infrastructure using infrastructure as code, including networking, identity, compute, storage, container platforms, monitoring, and governance
• Build and optimise containerised workloads using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service with resilient and repeatable deployment patterns
• Define observability standards using Azure-native and third-party tooling for monitoring, logging, alerting, diagnostics, and service health reporting
• Implement DevSecOps practices, including shift-left security, policy as code, secrets management, vulnerability management, and secure software supply chain controls
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, identity, security, pipeline, and production issues to maintain reliable business-critical services
• Advise software, platform, and support teams on effective Azure architecture, automation, CI/CD, and operational practices
• Drive cost-aware platform decisions using data, service metrics, capacity trends, and clear value measures
• Mentor engineers, champion platform engineering best practices, and help build a collaborative, high-performing DevSecOps culture

Требования:

• Proven experience in a senior platform, cloud, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering role supporting business-critical services
• Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating Microsoft Azure environments, including networking, identity, compute, storage, monitoring, and governance
• Deep experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub for source control, pull requests, CI/CD pipelines, release management, deployment automation, and environment controls
• Proven experience delivering infrastructure as code using Bicep, Terraform, ARM templates, or similar technologies
• Strong understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure Kubernetes Service, including scalable, resilient, and automated deployment patterns
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including secure configuration, least privilege access, secrets management, vulnerability awareness, and shift-left security
• Strong troubleshooting capability across cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, observability, pipeline, and application deployment issues
• Ability to mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and collaborate effectively with software, platform, security, and support teams
• Must be able to qualify for UK Security Clearance
• Must have the legal right to work in the United Kingdom and be able to produce right to work documentation

Условия:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Subsidised gym membership and plans through Wellhub
• Electric Car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrificed pension scheme
• Free lunch on office days
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• 30 Days annual PTO plus b/h
• Bonus Scheme
• Personal development opportunities
• Hybrid work setting with 3 days in the office
• Typical working hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
• hours and shifts may change according to department and business needs
• On-call availability may be required for exempt employees
• Non-exempt employees may be required to work over 40 hours per week with department manager approval
• Some travel may be required to European/US destinations