This is a rare opportunity to join a confidential, government-backed R&D organisation operating in the defence, aerospace, and C4I engineering landscape. The environment is highly technical, low-ego, and purpose driven, working on mission-critical systems that directly support national security objectives.

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Responsibilities

• • Mission-Critical DevOps & Automation

• Build, optimise and automate CI/CD pipelines for secure, on-prem environments.

• Support the full lifecycle of C4I platforms, including deployment, configuration, monitoring and hardening.

• Own configuration management using Infrastructure as Code practices.

• • Systems Engineering & Reliability

• Maintain highly available distributed systems supporting real-time operations.

• Drive observability best practices, logging, metrics and alerting.

• Ensure secure system operation in sensitive environments.

• • Security, Hardening & Compliance

• Apply STIG, CIS and defence-grade security baselines.

• Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance within restricted environments.

• Manage vulnerability remediation, patching and secure access control.

• • Collaboration & Technical Leadership

• Work closely with research, software and embedded engineering teams.

• Contribute to architecture decisions and cross-functional design reviews.

• Document processes and mentor junior engineers where needed.

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Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or similar (mandatory requirement).

• 5+ years in DevOps, Systems Engineering or Platform Engineering.

• Strong experience with Linux, on-prem infrastructure, CI/CD, Git, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Proven experience in secure or regulated environments.

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Bonus Qualifications

• Experience in defence, C4I, aerospace or high-security environments.

• Certification in Linux, Kubernetes, DevOps or Security.

• Scripting skills in Python, Bash or Go.

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