Automation Engineer

Sopra Steria Ltd; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Farnborough is looking for an Automation Engineer with satellite experience to drive automation and enhance system infrastructure. This role involves collaborating with teams to support a secure cloud service and develop tools for operational efficiency. The ideal candidate has expertise in programming languages like JavaScript or Python and experience with CI/CD pipelines. The position offers great career progression, a competitive salary based on experience, and substantial benefits including a car allowance and private medical care.

Benefits

£5,400 car allowance

25 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension plan

Generous flexible benefits fund (3% of base salary)

Qualifications

• Experience in vRealize Orchestrator/ Aria Orchestrator.
• Experience automating processes and operations.
• Proficient with scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash.
• Knowledge of system interoperability and application interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for operational support.
• Develop workflows for automation of processes.
• Manage and optimize infrastructure to ensure availability.
• Conduct root cause analysis for system incidents.

Skills

vRealize Orchestrator/ Aria Orchestrator

Satellite experience

Windows sysadmin

Linux sysadmin

JavaScript

Python

C#

C++

Go

Java

PowerShell

Bash

SQL

VMWare Cloud Foundation

Terraform

Ansible

Gitlab

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Are you ready to make a real impact in a dynamic, high-stakes environment?

We're looking for an Automation Engineer with Satellite experience to join our team within the Aerospace, Defence, and Security sector. This is your chance to blend your software engineering and operations skills to drive automation, monitor system performance, and enhance infrastructure at scale.
In this vital role, you will ensure our systems are high-performing, resilient, scalable, and secure. Your expertise will help power some of the most critical operations in the country.

This position supports our secure accounts. Ideally, you will already hold active SC clearance or higher. There is a requirement to attend site up to 5 days a week.

You do need to be eligible for SC and DV Clearance.

Location: Based on site in Farnborough

We can offer great career progression, flexible benefits and excellent development 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 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 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.
• 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)

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.