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