Are you\r\nready to make a real impact in a dynamic, high-stakes environment? 

We're\r\nlooking for a Automation Engineers to join our team within the\r\nAerospace, Defence, and Security sector. This is your chance to blend your\r\nsoftware engineering and operations skills to drive automation, monitor system\r\nperformance, and enhance infrastructure at scale.

In this\r\nvital role, you will ensure our systems are high-performing,\r\nresilient, scalable, and secure. Your expertise will help power some of the\r\nmost critical operations in the country.

This\r\nposition supports our secure accounts. Ideally, you will already hold\r\nactive SC\r\nclearance or higher There\r\nis a requirement to attend site up to 5 days a\r\nweek with scope to work remotely at our offices in Hampshire.  We can offer great career progression, flexible benefits and excellent\r\ndevelopment opportunities.

What you will be doing:

Collaborating as part of a cross-functional team to provide operational and engineering support for a large-scale secure cloud service. Developing workflows and tooling to automate processes and operations. Ensuring routine tasks are consistent, repeatable and scalable.Provisioning, managing and optimising infrastructure.Maintaining observability of the platform. Responding to alerts and incidents to ensure the availability of systems, interoperability and applications. Completing root cause analysis.Continually improving systems and processes to improve the efficiency of the service.Participating in change management and capacity planning activities.

What you will bring:

Experience in vRealize\r\n Orchestrator/ Aria OrchestratorWindows and Linux sysadmin expertise.Proficient with one or more programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, C#, C++, Go or Java.Competent with scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash or SQL.Background working with virtualization platforms to include VMWare Cloud Foundation stack or Proxmox.Familiarity with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (Iac), including supporting tooling such as Terraform and Ansible.Experience building Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, along with supporting tooling such as Gitlab.Knowledge of system interoperability and application interfaces. E.g. RESTful, API, Swagger.

It would be great if you had:

Comprehension of Event Driven Architecture (EDA) and Microservices. To ensure the service remains modular and responsive.Enterprise Containerisation and Orchestration insight, including Docker and Kubernetes.Understanding of methodologies such as Agile, DevSecOps, Scrum and Kanban. As well as the ability to put them into practice.Awareness of the Secure By Design framework with the ability to put it into practice.Networking and database administration know-how.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and\r\nexperience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to\r\nhear from you!

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we support different ways of\r\nworking and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re\r\ninterested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us\r\nabout what might be possible.

Employment Type: Full-time
Location: Farnborough – on-site at least 3 days, likely 5 days a week
Security Clearance Level: Eligible for SC and DV clearance
Internal Recruiter: Lee
Salary: Dependent On Experience.
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy\r\nadditional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous\r\nflexible benefits fund (3% of base salary)

We support\r\ndifferent ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working\r\narrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage\r\nyou to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about\r\nus?

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business\r\ndesigns, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients.\r\nThe work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National\r\nSecurity, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given\r\ntime for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our\r\ncolleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture\r\nin which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for\r\nthe customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s\r\nmost complex safety- and security-critical markets.