Our world‑leading Time & Frequency department is seeking a DevOps Engineer with proven expertise in automation and container orchestration.
This is an exceptional opportunity to join the global authority in precision timing at a defining moment for UK digital infrastructure.
Backed by a government investment of £180 million in the National Timing Centre (NTC) programme, we are developing a world‑first resilient time distribution capability that will provide industry with a robust alternative to satellite systems such as GPS – which are increasingly vulnerable to disruption from solar storms, jamming and spoofing. This will underpin essential services; including:
- Telecommunications
- Online banking
- Emergency response
- Transport networks
- Wider digital and data‑driven operations
Together, these services form the backbone of modern society – and your leadership will help ensure they remain secure, reliable and robust even if global navigation satellite systems fail.
Key responsibilities
- Work closely with Product Manager(s) and Delivery Manager(s) to align product and business requirements, develop proposals, and balance tech debt to deliver product functionality.
- Oversee software release management – automated deployment to multiple on‑prem and cloud environments.
- Develop scripts to automate DevOps functions.
- Manage all content going live.
Required skills, experience, and qualifications
- Proven and recent experience in the delivery of DevOps solutions.
- Team leadership.
- Risk assessment and management.
- Security mindset.
- Clear communicator.
- Automation – Packer, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD practices, developing pipelines.
- Unix system administration.
- Cloud platform administration.
- Docker and container orchestration.
- Python and shell scripting.
- Professional software development experience.
Desirable skills
- Interest in Physics, measurements, and communications.
- Time and frequency measurement and time scale steering.
- Real‑time monitoring and control of electronic hardware.
- Satellite communication, optical fibre and GNSS‑based systems.
We actively recruit citizens of all backgrounds. The nature of our work in specific departments means that nationality, residency and security requirements can be more tightly defined than others. To work at NPL, you will need to obtain BPSS security clearance. To work in this role in the Time & Frequency department, you must have an SC clearance with no restrictions, or the ability to obtain one.
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