Lead Automation Engineer

Shared Services Connected Ltd; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace and defense firm is seeking an Automation Lead to design and execute an automation strategy within a high-security environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive expertise in Windows and Linux systems, alongside proficiency in high-level programming and scripting languages. This permanent role, based in Farnborough, offers a salary up to £70K, plus benefits including a car allowance, annual leave, and private medical insurance.

Benefits

£5,400 car allowance

25 days annual leave with options

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension

Generous flexible benefits fund

Qualifications

• Active SC clearance or above, eligible for Developed Vetting (DV).
• Background in software engineering.
• Ability to work in a highly secure environment.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain an Automation Strategy.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team for operational support.
• Develop workflows and tooling for automation.
• Provision, manage, and optimise infrastructure.
• Maintain observability of the platform.
• Implement software configuration management processes.

Skills

Strong Windows and Linux sysadmin expertise

Proficient with one or more programming languages

Competent with multiple scripting languages

Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation

Familiarity with Configuration Management and Iac

Building CI/CD pipelines

Knowledge of system interoperability

Networking and database administration

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Gitlab

Job description

Can you lead on Automation and influence technology decisions?

We want you to join our team within the Aerospace Defence and Security Sector and combine software engineering and operations expertise, design an automation strategy, automate tasks, observe system health and optimise infrastructure. Can you be responsible for ensuring our systems are performant, resilient, scalable, and secure? This is an opportunity to work on a very large project within Defence.

You should ideally already hold active SC clearance or above. The position will ultimately require you to hold Developed Vetting (DV), so you must be eligible,

Based on site on Farnborough.

What you'll be doing :

• Create and maintain an Automation Strategy across a highly secure environment.
• Collaborating as part of a cross-functional team to provide operational and engineering support for a large-scale secure cloud service.
• Domain orchestration. Developing workflows and tooling to automate processes and operations.
• Provisioning, managing and optimising infrastructure.
• Produce component designs and specifications of any size and complexity.
• Maintaining observability of the platform.
• Change management and capacity planning.
• Ensure that appropriate software configuration management processes are implemented.

What you’ll bring :

• Strong Windows and Linux sysadmin expertise.
• Proficient with one or more high level programming languages, JavaScript, Python, C#, C++, Go or Java.
• Competent with multiple scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash or SQL.
• Background working with the core VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. Including vSphere, vSAN, NSX and the Aria Automation suite.
• 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 and supporting tooling such as Gitlab.
• Knowledge of system interoperability and application interfaces. RESTful, API, Swagger.
• 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!

Employment Type : Permanent

Location : Office based in Farnborough.

Security Clearance Level : Eligible for SC and DV Clearance.

Internal Recruiter : Jane

Salary : To £70K Dependant on experience.

Benefits : Level £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund