Infrastructure Engineer / Site Reliability Engineers — UK DV Cleared

Infrastructure Engineers / Site Reliability Engineers — UK DV Cleared

£90,000–£105,000 basic + Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

London | Hybrid, with 1–2 days working from home where operational requirements allow

3 permanent opportunities | Relocation assistance available

G-Tech Talent is partnering with a global software and data technology company to recruit Infrastructure Engineers and SREs supporting critical UK government deployments.

This is an opportunity to build and operate large-scale production systems, solve complex engineering challenges and use automation, AI and LLM technologies to improve reliability.

The role

• Build, operate and maintain scalable, high-performance production services.
• Own infrastructure reliability, including monitoring, alerting, configuration management and upgrades.
• Collaborate with engineering and deployment teams on systems design and resolving production issues.
• Deploy new products and manage infrastructure migrations.
• Develop production software and automation to reduce manual operations.
• Improve the long-term reliability, performance and scalability of services.
• Participate in an on-call rotation approximately every 5–6 weeks.

What we’re looking for

• 1–5 years’ experience in infrastructure engineering, SRE or a related discipline.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining large-scale production systems.
• Strong coding skills in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript—you’ll write production software regularly and complete a live coding assessment.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, Docker or similar container technologies.
• Experience in defence technology or another complex technical environment.
• A degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering from an accredited university.
• Confidence taking ownership in a fast-paced environment with a high level of autonomy.

Experience with Terraform, Ansible or CI/CD pipelines would be an advantage.

Essential eligibility requirements

Active UK Developed Vetting (DV) clearance must already be held—eligibility to obtain it is insufficient.

Sole British nationality is required for these positions; dual nationals cannot be considered.

You must live, or be willing to relocate, within 30 minutes of the London secure site.

Office attendance is required for classified work and on-call responsibilities.

Visa sponsorship is unavailable.

Applicants must not have applied to our client within the past 12 months. We’ll confirm the company’s identity confidentially before progressing your application.

Interested in finding out more?