DevOps Engineer

Roke; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday

Flexible working

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Roke, based in Gloucester, is seeking a DevOps & Infrastructure Lead to design and operate high‑throughput data platforms for National Security customers, spanning on‑premise and cloud environments.

You will mentor engineers, shape platform roadmaps, develop CI/CD pipelines with ArgoCD, implement observability with Prometheus and Grafana, and automate with Helm, Terraform and Go while ensuring security and reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience leading DevOps and infrastructure engineering across CI/CD, observability and IaC.
• Mentor engineers and lead agile ceremonies and delivery reviews.
• Experience with on‑premise data platforms and cloud‑based solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering and customer leaders to shape platform, infrastructure and delivery roadmaps.
• Lead the design, development and operation of high-throughput, high-capacity on-premise data platforms and cloud-based solutions.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows and automated deployment using ArgoCD.
• Implement observability with Prometheus, Grafana, logging and alerting for resilient operations.
• Use IaC and platform automation with Helm, Go and Terraform to deliver repeatable environments.
• Mentor engineers, review approaches and promote modern DevOps practices.
• Lead and contribute to agile ceremonies, aligning delivery with user needs, security and constraints.

Skills

CI/CD

GitOps

Platform engineering

Agile ceremonies

DevOps leadership

Observability

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Helm

Go

Tools

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Helm

Go

Job description

Join our growing team and help strengthen the UK’s safety and resilience.

We’re a leading technology and engineering company supporting customers across National Security, Defence and Intelligence, delivering systems that operate in the most demanding and sensitive environments.

As a DevOps & Infrastructure Lead, you’ll deliver and maintain high-throughput, high-capacity data platforms for National Security customers, spanning both on‑premise environments and cloud‑based solutions.

You’ll lead hands‑on DevOps and infrastructure engineering across CI/CD, observability, infrastructure‑as‑code and platform automation, helping teams build secure, reliable and scalable services in demanding environments.

You will:

• Partner with engineering and customer technical leaders to shape platform, infrastructure and delivery roadmaps.
• Lead the design, development and operation of high-throughput, high-capacity on-premise data platforms and associated cloud-based solutions.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows and automated deployment approaches using tools such as ArgoCD.
• Implement and improve observability using Prometheus, Grafana, logging and alerting to support resilient platform operations.
• Use infrastructure-as-code and platform automation with Helm, Go and Terraform to deliver repeatable, assured environments.
• Mentor engineers, review technical approaches and help teams adopt modern DevOps and platform engineering practices.
• Lead and contribute to agile ceremonies, keeping delivery aligned to user needs, operational constraints and security expectations.

Why Roke

You’ll work with smart, supportive people on projects that genuinely matter, in an environment that values technical excellence, collaboration and continuous learning. We invest in your growth, value diverse thinking and offer flexible working alongside a strong benefits package (including 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays). Roke combines a 70+ year heritage with the agility to make a real impact.

Location:

Based in Gloucester, with work across customer sites where required for integration, deployment and operational support.

Clearance:

Valid eDV clearance is required for this post.