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