Principal Infrastructure and Applications Engineer (Forward Deployed)

TN United Kingdom; Hereford; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Principal Infrastructure and Applications Engineer, where you'll be at the forefront of technology solutions that support defense and national security. This dynamic role involves working directly with customers to tackle complex challenges and deploying innovative solutions in a hybrid environment. You'll gain hands-on experience while contributing to mission-critical services and collaborating with a diverse team. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a real impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Professional Growth Opportunities

Flexible Working Hours

Inclusive Work Environment

Support for Disability Needs

Qualifications

• Experience in public cloud platforms, especially AWS.
• Strong skills in infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and support mission-critical services on cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with teams to integrate DevOps methodologies.

Skills

AWS Services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and Ansible

Python

Golang

CI/CD Pipelines

Docker and Kubernetes

IT Security Practices

Customer Focus

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

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Principal Infrastructure and Applications Engineer (Forward Deployed), Hereford

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Client:

Rowden

Location:

Hereford, United Kingdom

Job Category:

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

29.04.2025

Expiry Date:

13.06.2025

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About Rowden

We’re building the next UK-headquartered engineering powerhouse.

At Rowden, we design and integrate advanced systems that sense, connect, and protect data in challenging environments where quick decisions are vital. Our solutions use intelligent automation to enhance speed and efficiency and are built to be reliable and straightforward for critical operations in remote or high-pressure settings.

Headquartered in Bristol (UK), we combine modern engineering methods with cutting-edge commercial technology to create adaptable, mission-critical systems. We focus on solving the tough challenges that others overlook, ensuring our customers can operate effectively in an ever-changing world.

Our team of Forward Deployed Specialists

Join Rowden’s Forward Deployed Team and work where the action is.

You'll collaborate directly with customers on-site, tackling their most complex technology challenges. From diagnosing critical issues to deploying innovative solutions, you'll be at the forefront of solving real-world problems that matter. If you're hands-on, thrive in fast-paced environments, and want to see the impact of your work up close – this is the team for you.

What’s in it for you:

• Impact and Purpose: Your work makes a difference — directly supporting defence, national security, and frontline operators.
• Professional Growth: Experience faster learning, deeper technical challenges, and exposure to real-world constraints that sharpen your skills.
• Team Expansion: Be part of a growing team that’s delivering results and scaling up. Help us shape what forward deployment looks like as we expand into new projects and new regions.
  
  

The role: Principal Infrastructure and Applications Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our dynamic team at Rowden Technologies on a fixed term basis supporting one of our most important customers. This key position requires a dynamic, customer focussed engineer capable of designing, developing, building, deploying and supporting mission critical services across a range on cloud infrastructure (focussed on AWS).

Your initial deployment is anticipated to be on-site in the West Midlands for one year, working within a hybrid team of contractors and military personnel for a government organisation. While this role offers hybrid working options, it requires a minimum of 3 days per week on-site with the customer. Candidates must be willing to obtain a UKNSV security clearance with SC being essential, and DV clearance desirable.

More information about security clearance is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels

Key Areas of Responsibility

As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Rowden, your expertise will be pivotal in building and architecting solutions that support both our operational needs and strategic objectives.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Workload integration, deployment, documentation and subsequent monitoring and patching, ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of services.
• Collaborating with development teams to integrate DevOps methodologies and practice into the software development lifecycle.
• Interfacing with our account manager on progress updates and upcoming customer needs.

About You

Key skills, experience and behaviours

We are looking for someone who is passionate about technology and who actively invests in their technical skills and abilities. You’ll gain loads of experience in this role but before you do, you should have:

• Public Cloud Expertise: Experience across multiple cloud platforms, with a focus on AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation)
• Proven Customer Focus: Direct experience of being the face of an organisation to customers – and those customers being delighted by your work.
• Expertise in infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible and experience using Python,Golang or other object orientated programming languages.
• Comprehensive knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, and container technologies; Docker, Podman, orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and version control systems such as Git.
• Strong grounding in IT security practices, including application hardening and secure software development lifecycles.

Key attributes
The ideal candidate will have a strong balance of technical skills and experience, and should be comfortable:

• Planning complex solution architectures at both a broad and detailed level.
• Explaining those plans to business stakeholders of varying technical levels.
• Taking complete ownership of architecture designs and delivery, including managing a team (if required) for highly secure environments.
• Providing clear documentation and architecture diagrams, including governance, policies and runbooks.
• Presenting and knowledge sharing skills, using whiteboards and other tools, with the ability to work effectively internally, with partners and with customers.

Working at Rowden

We are committed to building a flexible, inclusive, and enabling company. Our aim is to create a diverse team of talented people with unique skills, experience, and backgrounds, so please apply and come as you are!

Rowden is a Disability Confident Committed company, and we actively encourage people with disabilities and health conditions to apply for our roles. Please let us know your requirements early on so that we can make sure you have everything you need up front to help make the recruitment process and experience as easy as possible.

Finally, if you feel that you don’t meet all the criteria included above but have transferable skills and relevant experience, we’d still love to hear from you!

Our Mission:

To create the best possible technology for frontline operators.

We’re upending the conventions of government technology provision and bringing a leaner, more transparent, and lower-friction approach that reduces waste and places outcome over process. We believe every possible measure should be taken to provide frontline operators in today’s dynamic and rapidly changing world with the technology they need to help keep themselves and others safe.

Our Vision:

We offer fast and flexible solutions to the technical challenges of public sector organisations.

We are specialists in software-centric systems, with deep expertise in developing capabilities for constrained networking environments or with challenging cyber security requirements. But the Rowden difference is as much cultural as it is technical: ‘what we do’ and ‘how we do it’ are equally important. We are specifically organised to create and sustain pace, reduce waste and inefficiency, and drive better outcomes. You’ll see and feel that energy and intent all over our business.

What matters to us?

• Our focus is on the end user. We exist to deliver the best possible outcomes for the users of our systems.
• Pace matters. The problems we solve are urgent.
• Our diverse skills and backgrounds make us better. Our team prides itself on being inclusive and multidisciplinary.
• We are radically honest. Saying what we mean, even when it isn’t easy.
• We are pragmatists. We provide realistic, focused solutions that get to the point.
• We improve continuously. We are relentless in our drive to make things better.