Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: £43,000 - 72,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience working within Agile, Scrum, or DevOps environments.
• Strong background in infrastructure or systems engineering across the full project lifecycle.
• Linux administration and deployment experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise server, storage, and desktop infrastructure.
• Ability to take ownership of technical work packages and collaborate with project teams.
• Understanding of large-scale, secure information systems.
• Current UK eDV Security Clearance is essential.
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS.
• Experience with Windows Server and Active Directory.
• Experience with VMware vSphere / ESXi.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure.
• Experience with the Atlassian toolset.
• Experience with Concourse CI/CD.
• Experience with Elasticsearch / Kibana.
• Experience with Apache Kafka.
• Experience with Helm.
• Experience with MongoDB.
• Experience with enterprise web applications and services.
• Experience with TOGAF, MODAF, or model-based systems engineering.
• Experience with networking monitoring and Red Hat migrations.

Responsibilities:

• Administer, maintain, and support secure infrastructure and operational systems.
• Perform system administration, backup, and recovery activities.
• Investigate and resolve infrastructure, network, and application issues.
• Support system installation, maintenance, and ongoing improvements.
• Research and resolve complex technical and system design challenges.
• Translate technical requirements into robust infrastructure solutions.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and project teams to deliver successful outcomes.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Active Directory
• Ansible
• Atlassian
• Azure
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Docker
• ElasticSearch
• Helm
• Support
• Kafka
• Kibana
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• MongoDB
• Network
• Security
• TOGAF
• Terraform
• VMware
• Web
• Windows
• Cloud

More:

We are a leading defence technology organisation delivering and supporting mission-critical infrastructure for secure government and defence programmes. We are offering a permanent, full-time Senior Infrastructure Engineer role based onsite in Gloucester within a highly skilled engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge national security and defence programmes in an Agile environment, with excellent salary, bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package. We also offer long-term career development within a growing engineering environment and a relocation package of up to £8k.

last updated 30 week of 2026