DevOps Engineer – C4I & Mission-Critical Systems

This is a rare opportunity to join a confidential, government‑backed R&D organisation operating in the defence, aerospace, and C4I engineering landscape. The environment is highly technical, low‑ego, and purpose driven, working on mission‑critical systems that directly support national security objectives.

• Mission‑Critical Dev Ops & Automation
• Build, optimise and automate CI/CD pipelines for secure, on‑prem environments.
• Support the full lifecycle of C4I platforms, including deployment, configuration, monitoring and hardening.
• Own configuration management using Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Systems Engineering & Reliability
• Maintain highly available distributed systems supporting real‑time operations.
• Drive observability best practices, logging, metrics and alerting.
• Ensure secure system operation in sensitive environments.
• Security, Hardening & Compliance
• Apply STIG, CIS and defence‑grade security baselines.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance within restricted environments.
• Manage vulnerability remediation, patching and secure access control.
• Collaboration & Technical Leadership
• Work closely with research, software and embedded engineering teams.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and cross‑functional design reviews.
• Document processes and mentor junior engineers where needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or similar (mandatory).
• 5+ years in Dev Ops, Systems Engineering or Platform Engineering.
• Strong experience with Linux, on‑prem infrastructure, CI/CD, Git, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Proven experience in secure or regulated environments.

• Experience in defence, C4I, aerospace or high‑security environments.
• Certification in Linux, Kubernetes, Dev Ops or Security.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash or Go.