Automation Engineer

Shared Services Connected Ltd; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology services provider in Farnborough is seeking a systems administrator to support a secure cloud service. The role involves operational collaboration, process automation, and system optimization. Candidates should have expertise in both Windows and Linux, plus proficiency in programming languages such as JavaScript or Python. The position offers a salary of up to £65,000, along with benefits like a car allowance and 25 days of leave. Flexibility in work arrangements is encouraged.

Benefits

Car allowance

25 days annual leave with option to buy more

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Flexible benefits fund

Qualifications

• Proven sysadmin expertise in both Windows and Linux environments.
• Proficient in high-level programming languages like JavaScript, Python, C#, C++, Go or Java.
• Competent in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash or SQL.
• Experience with enterprise orchestration tooling.
• Knowledge of virtualization platforms.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to provide operational support.
• Develop workflows and tooling to automate processes.
• Ensure routine tasks are consistent and scalable.
• Provision, manage, and optimize infrastructure.
• Respond to alerts and incidents to maintain system availability.
• Conduct root cause analysis to improve systems.

Skills

Windows sysadmin expertise

Linux sysadmin expertise

JavaScript

Python

C#

C++

Go

Java

PowerShell

Bash

SQL

Enterprise orchestration tooling

Virtualization platforms knowledge

Configuration Management

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

System interoperability knowledge

Networking and database administration

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Gitlab

VMWare Cloud Foundation

Proxmox

Docker

Kubernetes

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.
• Domain orchestration.
• 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

• Strong Windows and Linux sysadmin expertise.
• Proficient with one or more high level programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, C#, C++, Go or Java.
• Competent with multiple scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash or SQL.
• Background working with enterprise orchestration tooling, including the Aria Automation suite or Rundeck.
• Background working with virtulisation 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. RESTful, API, Swagger.
• Networking and database administration know-how.

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.

Other information

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

Although this role is advertised as full-time, 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 to apply and talk to us about 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: up to £65,000 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)

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.