Senior DevOps Engineer – Advanced R&D & Critical Infrastructure

Job description

An elite senior Dev Ops opportunity within a confidential engineering and R&D organisation working across defence-grade telecom, space systems and complex distributed platforms. This team builds ultra-reliable infrastructure at scale and offers long-term career stability.

• Architect, deploy and maintain large-scale on-prem and hybrid cloud environments.
• Lead automation initiatives, pipeline optimisation and infrastructure scalability.

• Ensure uptime and resilience of critical systems through proactive monitoring.
• Drive root-cause analysis and long-term system improvements.

• Implement defence-grade hardening and compliance controls.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams on secure design, secrets management and zero-trust.

• Lead engineering sessions, design reviews and technical mentorship.
• Support cross-functional delivery with software, embedded and R&D teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field (mandatory).
• 7+ years Dev Ops/SRE experience with strong expertise in CI/CD, Linux and containerisation.
• Solid hands‑on knowledge of Kubernetes, IaC, monitoring stacks, and secure networking.

• Experience in high-security, government or defence environments.
• Strong Python/Go scripting skills.
• Experience with hybrid cloud or large-scale distributed systems.