DevOps Engineer

 

Main characteristics

Location

Romsey, Hampshire

Company

Roke

Employment type

Permanent

Category

IT

Job summary

As a DevOps Engineer, you thrive on being the glue; working collaboratively with development and customer teams to maintain the operational integrity of mission critical services in a National Security environment.

Youre a DevOps Engineer that enjoys challenges, likes to end to end ownership and a broad scope of responsibility. You wont be rolling out the same 3rd party payment applications to multiple vendors; with a tenacious and technologically curious mind youll ensure successfully delivery of software roll outs and truly understand the mission impact of your work.

Roke are a leading technology & engineering company with clients spanning National Security, Defence and Industry 4.0 through our Futures business and Intelligence as a Service. You will work alongside our customers to solve their complex and unique challenges.

As our next DevOps Engineer, youll be catching issues before your customers realise and ensuring continued operational integrity of services that are strategically important to the nation. Deployments will be to both reference and live environments, developing and deploying code through CI/CD and the triage/analysis of support tickets.

The Key Requirements...

Recent experience with C#, and familiarity with other modern software languages such as Python or Java.
Experience of Windows operating systems and Powershell
Experience of DevOps in a CI/CD environment using tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab
Exposure to Infrastructure as Code technologies (IaC) such as Ansible or Terraform

Built on over a 60 years heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe thats our mission, passion, and motivation.

Joining a team united by purpose and ambition, youll be at the heart of an exciting growth journey: having doubled in size over the last 4 years, we intend to double our headcount again by 2027. At Roke, every individual counts. We push technical boundaries, together. We re-invest in product innovation, and we empower our people to make a difference.

With us your technologically curious nature will allow you to understand complex system architectures and upskill in new technologies. The environments you maintain will be responsible for keeping the country safe. The mission impact of your work will be hard to replicate elsewhere.

Where youll work

Alongside hybrid and flexible working options, youll find our Romsey site located within beautiful Hampshire countryside, close to the picturesque New Forest District and not far from a superb stretch of the south coast. This is no corporate concrete jungle; this is a manor house site, with ample parking an on-site gym and a driveway full of daffodils in the spring.

The Benefits and Perks...

Hybrid working: A minimum of 40% of your monthly hours working at your base/client location, subject to role requirements
Flexi-time: Working hours to suit you and your life
Annual bonus: Based on profit share and personal performance
Private medical insurance: Includes cover for existing conditions
Holiday: 25 days plus public holidays and your birthday off
Chemring Share Save: Monthly savings into a 3 or 5 year plan.

Clearances

Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve SC and DV clearance. As a result, you should be a British Citizen and have resided in the U.K. for the last 5 years for SC and 10 years for DV.

The Next Step...