Defence Infra Test Architect (Contract) DV Cleared

Talent Locker; England; On-site; GBP 96,000 - 126,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Expenses for on-site stay

Job summary

Talent Locker is seeking a QA Test Infrastructure Engineer on contract for MOD/Defence projects in Somerset. You will test and validate physical, virtualised and cloud infrastructure, ensuring functionality, resilience and security before deployment into secure environments.

Responsibilities include building test strategies, executing functional and security tests, validating Infra as Code, and integrating readiness testing into CI/CD pipelines. DV clearance and onsite presence are required.

Qualifications

• DV Security Clearance required.
• Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, switching, VLANs, firewalls.
• Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting.
• VMware and virtualised infrastructure.
• Physical infrastructure including routers, switches and cabling.
• Automated infrastructure validation and environment readiness testing.

Responsibilities

• Create infrastructure-focused test strategies, plans and test cases.
• Carry out functional, integration, regression, resilience and security testing.
• Test and validate Infrastructure as Code deployments.
• Validate physical, virtualised and cloud infrastructure.
• Provision and verify test environments alongside DevSecOps teams.
• Build infrastructure validation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Identify defects, risks and infrastructure issues ahead of production.
• Support security assurance, compliance and accreditation activities.

Skills

Infrastructure testing

Security testing

CI/CD testing

Automated infrastructure validation

Environment readiness testing

Test strategy & planning

Defence/ MOD testing

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Job description

Talent Locker is seeking a QA Test Infrastructure Engineer on contract for MOD/Defence projects in Somerset. You will test and validate physical, virtualised and cloud infrastructure, ensuring functionality, resilience and security before deployment into secure environments.

Responsibilities include building test strategies, executing functional and security tests, validating Infra as Code, and integrating readiness testing into CI/CD pipelines. DV clearance and onsite presence are required.