Hybrid Infrastructure Engineer

at Rowden

• Job title: Infrastructure Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £55,000 - £75,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Ansible, Cloud, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Rust, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bristol, United Kingdom

About the role

• Engineer designing and building systems for defence and emergency services at Rowden. Join a hybrid team creating critical technology in Bristol.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for an Engineer with at least 4 years of experience designing, building, and operating systems that solve real problems in areas such as Defence, Security, and the Emergency Services.
• This is a hybrid role, with three days a week at our Bristol HQ and up to two days working from home.
• Some travel to customer sites may be required.
• You’ll work across software, infrastructure, and integration boundaries: automating, deploying, and improving complex systems.
• You’ll use cloud technologies, but you won’t be limited to them.
• Candidates must be eligible for SC Clearance.

Requirements

• At least 4 years’ experience building/operating systems on cloud, virtualised, or on-prem infrastructure.
• Practical understanding of compute, networking, storage, and identity management.
• Hands on Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or CloudFormation, plus a configuration management and automation tool like Ansible.
• Able to build and deploy versioned containers into environments or a container orchestration service.
• Some coding/scripting experience, able to write in at least one of: Python, Golang, Rust, Node.js, Java, or Bash.
• Awareness of secure system design and best practice frameworks such as NCSC Cloud Security Principles or equivalent.
• Able to apply engineering thinking to improve reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Experience managing multi-account or multi-tenant environments (desirable, not essential).
• Experience deploying and configuring observability tools and platforms (desirable, not essential).
• Familiarity with GitOps practices (desirable, not essential).

Benefits

• We are committed to building a flexible, inclusive, and enabling company. Our aim is to create a diverse team of talented people with unique skills, experience, and backgrounds, so please apply and come as you are!
• We also recognise the importance of flexible working and support this wherever we can. We typically operate a flexible, hybrid-working model, with an average 3 days in the office each week (dependent on the role). We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility, part-time working requirements and/or workplace adjustments with all our applicants.
• Rowden is a Disability Confident Committed company, and we actively encourage people with disabilities and health conditions to apply for our roles. Please let us know your requirements early on so that we can make sure you have everything you need up front to help make the recruitment process and experience as easy as possible.
• Finally, if you feel that you don’t meet all the criteria included above but have transferable skills and relevant experience, we’d still love to hear from you!