Junior Automation Engineer

Junior Automation Engineer

Farnborough | Hybrid - 2/3 days remote per week
Up to £42,000 + benefits
Must be a sole UK national and eligible for SC clearance

An opportunity for an Automation Engineer to work on constantly evolving, experimental and cutting-edge technology supporting projects of National Security importance.

You'll join a team of five, reporting to and being mentored by a Senior Technical Engineer. The role offers the opportunity to develop your automation and infrastructure skills while working alongside experienced technical specialists across modern infrastructure environments.

The role

You'll help design, develop and implement automation solutions, working with Architects and technical SMEs to understand requirements and identify where infrastructure and processes can be automated.

The technical environment has a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code, Linux, CI/CD and containerisation.

Key areas of experience include:

• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible
• Linux environments
• CI/CD pipelines and Git/version control
• Containerisation, ideally Kubernetes
• Scripting with PowerShell, Python and/or Bash
• Azure or other cloud platforms
• Networking fundamentals including IP addressing, subnets, routing and firewalls

You'll also support system integration and validation, ...