Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A lead DevOps role responsible for designing and operating secure, high-performance platforms across cloud and on-premise environments. You will guide automation, delivery pipelines, and infrastructure improvements.
Highlights
Lead engineering efforts on secure, high-scale platforms while working with advanced infrastructure and automation technologies.
Description
Join our growing team and help strengthen the UK’s safety and resilience.
We’re a leading technology and engineering company supporting customers across National Security, Defence and Intelligence, delivering systems that operate in the most demanding and sensitive environments.
As a DevOps & Infrastructure Lead, you’ll deliver and maintain high-throughput, high-capacity data platforms for National Security customers, spanning both on-premise environments and cloud-based solutions.
You’ll lead hands-on DevOps and infrastructure engineering across CI/CD, observability, infrastructure-as-code and platform automation, helping teams build secure, reliable and scalable services in demanding environments.
You will:
Partner with engineering and customer technical leaders to shape platform, infrastructure and delivery roadmaps.Lead the design, development and operation of high-throughput, high-capacity on-premise data platforms and associated cloud-based solutions.Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows and automated deployment approaches using tools such as ArgoCD.Implement and improve observability using Prometheus, Grafana, logging and alerting to support resilient platform operations.Use infrastructure-as-code and platform automation with Helm, Go and Terraform to deliver repeatable, assured environments.Mentor engineers, review technical approaches and help teams adopt modern DevOps and platform engineering practices.Lead and contribute to agile ceremonies, keeping delivery aligned to user needs, operational constraints and security expectations.
Why Roke
You’ll work with smart, supportive people on projects that genuinely matter, in an environment that values technical excellence, collaboration and continuous learning.
We invest in your growth, value diverse thinking and offer flexible working alongside a strong benefits package (including 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays).
Roke combines a 70+ year heritage with the agility to make a real impact.
Location:
Based in Gloucester, with work across customer sites where required for integration, deployment and operational support.
Clearance:
Valid eDV clearance is required for this post.
