Senior DevOps Engineer

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR electronic warfare secure communications aerial refueling special air missions aerial firefighting and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing building and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service spanning people finance platform operations legal and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas EMEA and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects not just equipment. By owning the full stack from the lab to the field we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. Its a fast-moving intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility work on problems that matter and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington DC with facilities across the United States the United Kingdom as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

This role sits within Platform Group area of Metrea. The Platform Grouprovides the Information Technology and Information Systems ecosystem that Metrea is utilising for the day-to-day operations communication collaboration and information sharing across its Platform business block.

In this role you will lead the design and operation of secure reliable Azure platforms that enable Metreas UK teams to build deploy and support mission-focused services with confidence. You will shape how we use Azure Azure Dev Ops Git Hub automation and Dev Sec Ops  practices to improve delivery speed platform resilience and developer experience.

You will be successful if you can combine hands-on engineering depth with technical leadership: solving complex platform challenges mentoring others and making pragmatic decisions for sensitive defence environments.

• Assistwiththe design implementation and operation of secure scalable Azure platform services for UK programmes and internal teams
• Own Azure Dev Ops or Git Hub-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 Dev Sec Ops 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 tomaintainreliable 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
  
  Dev Sec Ops culture

• Proven experience in a senior platform cloud Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops or Git Hub 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
  
  Dev Sec Ops 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