Job Description

Great ideas come from different minds. That’s why we bring together engineers, scientists, analysts, and creatives from every background — and give them the trust, tools, and freedom to make a difference. What connects us is the mission: solving meaningful problems and building capability that protects what matters most.

And as the challenges evolve, so do we — working on the technologies that will shape tomorrow, not just today.

DevOps & Infrastructure Lead - National Security Business

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.
What you’ll be doing:
You’ll lead a team developing, operating and continuously improving secure on-premise and cloud data platform capabilities.
• 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.
What you’ll bring (or Required Skills / Qualifications):
• Strong DevOps or infrastructure engineering background, with experience leading technical teams.
• Experience delivering secure cloud-based infrastructure and services, alongside on-premise platform environments.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience using Terraform and Helm, with automation or tooling development using Go.
• Container and orchestration experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm and related deployment tooling.
• CI/CD and GitOps tooling experience, ideally including ArgoCD and automated deployment pipelines.
• Good understanding of observability, monitoring and alerting using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, alongside security, networking, logging, secrets management and operational assurance.
• Able to learn new technologies quickly and help others adopt them safely and effectively.

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. If you are eligible but don’t hold eDV, please explore other engineering roles via Roke’s Careers Page. Eligibility details can be found on gov.uk.

The Next Step

Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.

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