DevOps / SRE Engineer

Roke; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Flexible working arrangements

Continuous learning opportunities

Job summary

Roke in Gloucester is looking for a DevOps / SRE Engineer to help safeguard the UK’s safety. In this role, you will build and operate secure services, supporting critical operations in sensitive environments.

You will deploy resilient web services, improve reliability, and mentor junior engineers. The position comes with flexible working arrangements and a comprehensive benefits package, including 30 days of holiday.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying production web services, ideally AI-enabled workflows.
• Strong understanding of containerisation and orchestration tools.
• Familiar with infrastructure as code tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and support resilient web services across environments.
• Improve reliability, lead incident response, and technical debt reduction.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code and container platforms.

Skills

DevOps background

SRE background

CI/CD tooling

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

Tools

GitLab CI

Prometheus

Grafana

Kibana

Job description

DevOps / SRE Engineer – National Security Business Unit

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 / SRE Engineer you’ll build and operate highly available, secure and scalable services that support critical operations and sensitive data. This role combines operational excellence, automation‑first delivery and strong security discipline across classified and unclassified environments.

What you’ll be doing

• Design, deploy and support resilient web services across test, staging and production environments
• Improve reliability, reduce technical debt and lead incident response, RCA and no‑blame postmortems
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code and container platforms using tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible and Terraform
• Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines (for example GitLab CI) to enable safe, repeatable deployments across environments
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting and tracing to improve visibility, troubleshooting, performance and capacity planning
• Embed security into pipelines and infrastructure, including secrets, certificates, access control, compliance automation and remediation of infrastructure incidents
• As a senior engineer, mentor others, influence engineering standards and contribute to platform and reliability strategy

What you’ll bring

• Experience deploying production web services and, ideally, AI‑enabled processing workflows
• Strong DevOps / SRE background with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins or GitLab CI
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration, including Docker, Kubernetes and Helm
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm or ArgoCD
• Experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana or similar

Nice to have

• AWS experience
• Experience with agentic workflows or AI data pipelines

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 & Clearance

The role is based in Gloucester with work across Roke office and customer sites. Limited hybrid working may be possible depending on business needs. Valid eDV clearance is required.

If you are eligible but don’t currently hold eDV, please explore other engineering roles via Roke’s Careers Page. Eligibility details can be found on gov.uk.