Infrastructure Engineer

Fortice; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortice in Bristol is seeking an Infrastructure/DevOps engineer to balance cloud and on‑prem work, including edge deployment in low-connectivity environments. You’ll automate, deploy, and improve systems that support information services and ML workloads.

The role blends cloud platforms with networking and security expertise, working across software, infrastructure and integration to make deployments reliable and observable.

Qualifications

• Experience bridging cloud and on‑prem environments is valuable.
• Familiarity with edge deployment scenarios and disconnected environments preferred.
• Knowledge of security best practices for distributed systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage cloud platforms for ongoing projects.
• Automate and implement Infrastructure as Code to create reliable systems.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve testing and release processes.
• Provide expertise on networks, security and databases for the stack.
• Extract and analyze metrics to improve performance and troubleshoot issues.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Infrastructure as Code

Networking

Security

Databases

Observability tooling

GitOps

Edge deployment

Job description

Bristol (Hybrid) · SC Clearance Eligible

Not your typical DevOps role

Interested in a role where you aren't living exclusively in the cloud?

Our client builds technology for UK defence and national security that must work at the edge in places where connectivity is degraded, denied or simply doesn't exist.

Yes, you'll work with cloud tech day to day, but you'll also get exposure to on-prem infrastructure, networking, and edge deployment - the kind of infrastructure work that doesn't assume there's always a network connection to lean on.

If you've spent the last few years going deeper into cloud-only work and you're missing the broader infrastructure side of things, this might be worth a look.

Who we're working with

We're recruiting for one of Europe's fastest-growing engineering businesses - a Bristol-headquartered company building technology that supports UK national security and resilience. They have a huge manufacturing space, an international footprint that's growing, and a headcount that's already around 200 and climbing.

Their work is about turning advances in sensing, AI and communications into real operational capability - helping frontline teams make better decisions and keeping people and critical assets safer in tough environments.

The opportunity

Demand's grown, and our client is building out their Infrastructure/DevOps team. You'll be working across software, infrastructure and integration - automating, deploying, and improving systems that support their information systems and machine learning services.

What the role involves

• Building and managing cloud platforms for ongoing projects
• Creating reliable systems through automation and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Working with development teams to improve their testing and release processes
• Providing expertise on networks, security and databases
• Pulling metrics from systems and applications to help with performance and troubleshooting

What you'll need

It would also help (though it's not essential) if you've got experience with:

• Networking, storage or identity management
• Multi-account or multi-tenant environments
• Observability tooling
• GitOps

This role would suit someone who's genuinely curious about tech, who reads round the subject in their own time, who spots problems early rather than waiting to be told, and who thinks about how systems get used rather than just how they're built.