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DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer - Customer Engineering, Defence
2 years ago
In defence, we’re transforming how those who keep us safe prepare for the threats of the future. Join us and you’ll help build the most innovative virtual worlds available, so our defenders can plan, train and make life-saving decisions in the real one.
The mission of the DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer is to provide DevOps knowledge and hands on capability throughout development and at customer sites in a solution deployment role. Using cloud platforms eg Azure, GCP and AWS technologies such as kubernetes, docker, build pipelines, terraform, Ansible, and scripting (Python/Bash). You will work with development teams, partners, and customers to solve integration and configuration issues and ensure successful deployments of our solutions. You will embody our values and serve as a technical representative of the company at customer locations. You will identify and ensure the solution is deployed in the appropriate operational environment e.g. power, cooling, bandwidth.
Your Opportunity
- Support releases for events or exercises by executing deployments as required by governing projects on the cloud or on standalone server hardware.
- Resolve/Assist in resolution of deployment issues throughout development from your assigned squads/project teams
- Support the 1st line responders in solving escalated customer and partner integration and deployment issues
- Build, document and improve deployment processes for assigned project teams
- Provide knowledge transfer sessions across the team
- Manage the installation of portable server hardware within Improbable office or at customer site.
- Plan and manage the requirements such as space, power, cooling, cables and auxiliary hardware so the equipment can be installed and run wherever it is required
- Performance test the cloud and standalone environments to ensure they scale appropriately under load without a degradation in performance
- Resilience test the cloud and standalone environments to ensure that if there is a failure it automatically recovers without a degradation in performance.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Security Clearance
Why You’re Made for This
- Strong understanding and experience of DevOps principals
- Solid scripting experience in Python and Bash
- Good experience within continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
- You're cloud agnostic or have broad experience across major cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Solid experience with Kubernetes on Docker
- Good experience with Terraform
Everyone brings different experiences, perspective, knowledge and skills that makes each one of us brilliant. You don't have to meet all the requirements and experiences on this job advert to apply for and be successful in this role.
Due to the nature of this role, you will be expected to meet requirements associated with obtaining UK security vetting clearance; including an unbroken residency in the UK for the previous 5 years. If you think that this might be an issue for you, please let us know.
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About Us
Improbable is determined to foster an environment where people can do their best work and feel like they belong. We believe a healthy culture, strong values and contribution from a diverse range of individuals will help us to achieve success.
We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.
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