DevOps / SRE Engineer – National Security Business Unit Join our growing team and help strengthen the UK’s safety and resilience. We’re a leading technology and engineering company supporting customers across National Security, Defence and Intelligence, delivering systems that operate in the most demanding and sensitive environments.
As a DevOps / SRE Engineer you’ll build and operate highly available, secure and scalable services that support critical operations and sensitive data. Design, deploy and support resilient web services across test, staging and production environments Improve reliability, reduce technical debt and lead incident response, RCA and no-blame postmortems Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines (for example GitLab CI) to enable safe, repeatable deployments across environments Implement monitoring, logging, alerting and tracing to improve visibility, troubleshooting, performance and capacity planning As a senior engineer, mentor others, influence engineering standards and contribute to platform and reliability strategy
Experience deploying production web services and, ideally, AI-enabled processing workflows Strong DevOps / SRE background with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins or GitLab CI Coding ability in Python, JavaScript or Java, with a willingness to learn new technologies Experience using AI-assisted development tools in day-to-day engineering work
AWS experience Experience with agentic workflows or AI data pipelines
You’ll work with smart, supportive people on projects that genuinely matter, in an environment that values technical excellence, collaboration and continuous learning. We invest in your growth, value diverse thinking and offer flexible working alongside a strong benefits package (including 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays). Roke combines a 70+ year heritage with the agility to make a real impact.
The role is based in Gloucester with work across Roke office and customer sites. Limited hybrid working may be possible depending on business needs. If you are eligible but don’t currently hold eDV, please explore other engineering roles via Page….