# Infrastructure Engineer

> Raydar · London, United Kingdom (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-15

**Salary:** GBP 90,000–105,000

**Workplace:** hybrid

## Description

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

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/B5EF049540/apply)

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