Infrastructure Engineer

About the company

Our client is a software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the stability and day-to-day operation of production infrastructure for secure, large-scale software deployments. Partner with engineering and delivery colleagues on design, incident response and automation, including a periodic on-call shift.

What you'll do

- Build and maintain dependable, scalable services across secure production deployments.

- Take charge of production health, covering observability, alerts, configuration control and version upgrades.

- Collaborate with delivery and product engineers on sound, scalable system design.

- Help investigate, fix and head off production incidents alongside colleagues.

- Roll out new software releases across production environments and move workloads onto newer infrastructure.

- Drive automation that removes repetitive manual work, including solutions that use modern AI tooling.

- Troubleshoot and tune services and infrastructure for lasting stability and growth.

- Join an on-call rota, about once every 5 to 6 weeks, to support production incidents.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- 1 to 5 years in infrastructure engineering or site reliability engineering.

- Practical experience running dependable, high-scale production environments.

- Writes production code every day and can pass a live coding exercise; scripting alone is not sufficient.

- Hands-on production use of containers and orchestration tools.

- Proficiency in at least one of Java, Python, Go or JavaScript.

- Experience in defense technology or another technically complex organisation.

- Degree in computer science or software engineering from an accredited university.

- History of replacing manual work with automation and strengthening system stability.

- Comfortable with a fast-moving, self-directed setting that includes on-call duty.

- Currently holds active UK DV security clearance and meets the associated nationality requirement.

- Lives within a short commute of the London secure site, or is ready to relocate there.

Bonus points

- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling or CI/CD pipelines.

- Defense technology or government background.

- Deep Kubernetes knowledge.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: GBP 90,000 to 105,000 per year

- Equity

- Health, dental and vision coverage

- Life and disability insurance

- Flexible time off

- Paid holidays

- Parental leave and family benefits

- Retirement plan

- Relocation support

Location and work model

- London, United Kingdom

- Hybrid, with in-office work expected and 1 to 2 days per week working from home

- Full-time