Automation Engineer

Sopra Steria Ltd; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

25 days annual leave

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Sopra Steria Ltd is recruiting a Senior Infrastructure Engineer focused on automation to support a large-scale project in the Aerospace, Defence and Security sector. The role is on-site in Farnborough with DV clearance priorities for British nationals.

You will design and implement automation solutions, develop IaC with Terraform, manage Ansible playbooks, and build CI/CD pipelines. A strong Windows/Linux background and various scripting skills are required.

Qualifications

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling.
• Hands-on automation experience in large-scale environments.
• Strong understanding of Windows and Linux system administration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automation solutions for infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (modules, state management, reusable patterns).
• Create and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and automation pipelines.
• Build automation scripts using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Integrate automation with CI/CD pipelines and version control workflows.
• Improve deployment processes, environment consistency, and operational efficiency.

Skills

Terraform

Ansible

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Gitlab

Tools

vSphere

vSAN

NSX

Aria Automation

Job description

Are you an Automation Infrastructure Engineer with knowledge of Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code?
Sopra Steria are currently recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with a experienced focused around automation to support a large-scale project in our Aerospace, Defence and Security Sector. We need Engineers with a broad range of automation skills but ideally hands on experience using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and using Ansible to create and maintain playbooks, roles and automation pipelines. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to not only be a hands‑on technical authority in automation but also to support with the wider automation strategy moving forward.
This role is based on site in our office in Farnborough.
Due to the nature of the project, we are only able to progress with British Nationals eligible for DV clearance.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design, build, and maintain automation solutions for infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (modules, state management, reusable patterns).
• Create and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and automation pipelines.
• Build automation scripts and tooling using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Integrate automation with CI/CD pipelines and version control workflows.
• Improve deployment processes, environment consistency, and operational efficiency.

What you’ll bring:

• Strong Windows and Linux sysadmin expertise
• Competent with multiple scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash or SQL
• Background working with the core VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. Including vSphere, vSAN, NSX and the Aria Automation suite
• 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
• Networking and database administration know-how

It would be great if you had:

• Strong technical leadership skills
• Understanding of open source programming languages
  

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Farnborough
Security Clearance Level: DV
Internal Recruiter: Olly Walker
Salary: Up to £70,000
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.
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you and talk to us about what might be possible.

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