Technical Lead

Join Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence, and Security business, where you’ll play a key role in delivering cutting-edge digital solutions that advance National Security and impact the safety of the UK. In this role as a Dev-Ops Technical Lead, you’ll bring strong technical knowledge of infrastructure as code and CICD and Dev-Ops best practices, take ownership of system configuration, and ensure optimal service delivery.

You will guide a skilled team, drive continuous improvements, and work closely with stakeholders like customers and third-party partners to influence decisions that maintain system stability and improve user experience.

You will be part of a collaborative, supportive culture where your professional growth is prioritised, with time for development and mentorship to help you thrive. If you are hands-on, solution-focused, and ready to make a real impact in a unique environment, we want you on our team.

This role requires the successful applicant to undergo UK security vetting clearance (or a willingness to apply).

Office based on site in Gloucester.

What you will be doing:

• Understand and own the technical configuration and detail of the system and its interfaces and be able to capture and maintain appropriate documentation to describe it.
• Develop and maintain strong customer and third-party/partner relationships and be able to influence decision making and prioritisation.
• Work in a disciplined and structured manner in accordance with Dev-Ops, Agile and ITIL best practices and standards.
• Guide the team with the investigation, triage & allocation or actioning of incidents/changes & stories ensuring they are dealt with effectively and promptly making the best use of available resources.
• Guide the team to proactively monitor and maintain system health to ensure the highest level of service is continually maintained.
• Oversee any deployment issues, fault finding and resolving any hardware, software or networking issues that may arise.
• Maintain a strong focus on system reliability and availability.
  
  

What you will bring:

• Able to impact assess new features and operational improvements, and influence key stakeholders to ensure system stability and relevance.
• Strong understanding and ability to apply and guide application of the Dev Ops Lifecycle and its phases, CI/CD, Automation, Containerisation, On-Prem & Cloud Platforms.
• Understanding of Linux (Red Hat preferred), Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Argo CD, AWS, Elastic.
• Ability to identify, develop and deploy improvements and new features as appropriate.
• Understanding of computer networks, routing, firewalls & proxies.
• Understanding of antimalware agents, and IDPS concepts.
• Mentoring, leadership, support and development of team.
• Identification of process and governance improvements and application of them.
• Experience in a delivery role – able and willing to be hands on.
  
  

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Office based in Gloucester

Security Clearance Level: Eligible for DV Clearance

Internal Recruiter: Jane

Salary: To £70K

Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

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Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.