Automation Engineer

Sopra Steria

Farnborough

Hybrid

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

£5,400 car allowance

25 days annual leave

Private medical and life assurance

Pension plan

Flexible benefits fund – 3% of base salary

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking an Automation Engineer to support operations in the Aerospace, Defence, and Security sector. This role involves collaborating with a cross-functional team, developing workflows, and monitoring system performance. The ideal candidate will have experience with vRealize Orchestrator, scripting, and various programming languages. Opportunities for flexible working arrangements and career progression are available. You will be required to work on-site in Farnborough a minimum of three to five days a week.

Qualifications

Experience in vRealize Orchestrator / Aria Orchestrator.
Windows and Linux sysadmin expertise.
Proficiency in one or more programming languages.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with a cross-functional team to provide operational support.
Develop workflows and tooling for automation.
Manage and optimize infrastructure.

Skills

vRealize Orchestrator / Aria Orchestrator

Windows and Linux sysadmin expertise

JavaScript, Python, C#, C++, Go or Java

PowerShell, Bash or SQL

VMWare Cloud Foundation or Proxmox

Terraform and Ansible

Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

RESTful, API, Swagger

Job description

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

We're looking for an Automation Engineer 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 five days a week with scope to work remotely at our offices in Hampshire. 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 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.
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, 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 experience 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. If you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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