Automation Engineer

Shared Services Connected Ltd; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology services provider is seeking a Full-time Operations and Engineering Support Specialist in Farnborough. The role involves operational support for a secure cloud service, automation, infrastructure management, and incident response. Ideal candidates will have extensive sysadmin skills in Windows and Linux, experience with vRealize Orchestrator, and proficiency in programming languages like JavaScript, Python, or C#. This position provides a generous benefits package and requires being on-site at least 3 days a week.

Benefits

£5,400 car allowance

25 days annual leave

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Generous flexible benefits fund (3% of base salary)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate in a cross-functional team for operational and engineering support.
• Develop workflows and tooling to automate processes effectively.
• Provision, manage, and optimize infrastructure for efficiency.
• Maintain observability and respond to alerts ensuring system availability.
• Engage in change management and capacity planning for services.

Skills

vRealize Orchestrator/ Aria Orchestrator

Windows sysadmin expertise

Linux sysadmin expertise

JavaScript

Python

C#

C++

Go

Java

PowerShell

Bash

SQL

VMWogenen Cloud Foundation stack

Terraform

Ansible

Gitlab

Job description

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 Orchestrator/ Aria Orchestrator.
• Satellite experience.
• Windows 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 VMWogenen 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. RESTful, API, Swagger.

It would be great if you had:

• Comprehension of Event Driven Architecture (EDA) and Microservices.
• 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 experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

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: Jane
Salary: Dependent On Experience.
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund (3% of base salary)