Senior DevOps Automation Developer

Sopra Steria; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology services company is seeking a DevOps Automation Engineer to work on a large Defence site in Salisbury. You will automate processes, monitor system health, and optimize infrastructure while ensuring the systems are secure and resilient. Ideal candidates will have strong skills in Ansible, programming, and system administration, as well as some experience with VMware tools. A referral bonus is offered for successful candidates.

Benefits

Referral Bonus: £1500.00

Qualifications

• Strong Ansible skills.
• Strong Windows and Linux system administration expertise.
• Proficiency in high-level programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, C#, C++, Go, or Java.
• Competence with multiple scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, or SQL.
• Background working with VMware Cloud Foundation stack, including vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Aria Automation suite.
• Familiarity with Configuration Management and IaC using Terraform or Ansible.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and using GitLab.
• Knowledge of system interoperability and application interfaces (e.g. RESTful, API, Swagger).
• Networking and database administration know-how.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating as part of a cross-functional team providing operational and engineering support.
• Developing workflows and tooling to automate processes and operations.
• Provisioning, managing, and optimising infrastructure.
• Maintaining observability of the platform.
• Responding to alerts and incidents to ensure system availability.

Skills

Ansible

Windows system administration

Linux system administration

JavaScript

Python

C#

C++

Go

Terraform

GitLab

Tools

VMware Cloud Foundation

vSphere

vSAN

NSX

Aria Automation suite

PowerShell

Bash

SQL

Job description

Want to work on a large Defence site supporting highly secure accounts?

We’re growing our team of DevOps Automation Engineers and looking for people with a range of skills to help automate key elements of service. You’ll combine software engineering and operations expertise to automate tasks, monitor system health and optimise infrastructure. This is a great opportunity to be part of our Aerospace, Defence and Security sector, working on projects that make a real difference to national security.

You’ll play a key role in ensuring our systems are performant, resilient, scalable and secure. As this role supports one of our secure accounts, you should ideally already hold active SC clearance or above and be eligible to pursue DV clearance.

This is an on-site role based in Salisbury.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborating as part of a cross-functional team providing operational and engineering support for a large-scale secure cloud service.
• Developing workflows and tooling to automate processes and operations.
• Provisioning, managing and optimising infrastructure.
• Maintaining observability of the platform.
• Responding to alerts and incidents to ensure system availability and interoperability, and completing root cause analysis.

What you’ll bring:

• Strong Ansible skills.
• Strong Windows and Linux system administration expertise.
• Proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, C#, C++, Go or Java.
• Competence with multiple scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash or SQL.
• Background working with the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack, including vSphere, vSAN, NSX and the Aria Automation suite.
• Familiarity with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and using supporting tools such as GitLab.
• Knowledge of system interoperability and application interfaces (e.g. RESTful, API, Swagger).
• Networking and database administration know-how.

Referral Bonus: £1500.00

Clearance: Eligible for SC and DV

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Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.