DevOps Engineer

ALTEN is a global engineering and technology consultancy operating across over 35 countries worldwide. The company partners with industry leaders across sectors including Aeronautics, Aerospace, Defence, Naval, Automotive, Energy, Rail, IT and more.

The team delivers software infrastructure that supports critical system activities from development through to live execution. In this role, you will contribute to the design, deployment, and ongoing operation of platforms where stability, traceability, and automation are essential.

Role details

• Location: London
• On site: 2x a month on site
• Clearance: SC clearable
• Experience level: Mid - Senior

• Design, extend, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines to support build, testing, and release activities across multiple services.
• Operate and enhance container-based platforms using Docker and associated registry and orchestration technologies.
• Establish deployment standards, including release versioning, rollback approaches, and production-readiness controls.
• Lead operational support and maintenance activities to ensure service continuity and system performance.
• Develop and manage operational tooling to support automated deployment of production services, centralised logging and observability, and orchestration and lifecycle management of distributed components.
• Work closely with software engineers and operations stakeholders to ensure reliable integration of critical services.

Required skills

• Strong hands-on experience with containerised environments, including image management, registries, and lifecycle operations.
• Experience within Aerospace, Defence or Space industries.
• Practical experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent.
• Solid knowledge of Linux systems, shell scripting, and automation practices.
• Understanding of networking concepts relevant to distributed platforms, such as DNS, shared storage, and service connectivity.
• A disciplined approach to documentation, configuration management, and operational processes.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent military experience.
• This role may require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance.
• As part of onboarding, candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard.

• Experience working with SQL databases, including administration or performance optimisation.
• Background supporting complex, safety-critical, or highly available operational systems.
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code practices or monitoring and visualisation tools, such as Terraform or Grafana.

• Personalised career path and a rewarding management style.
• Huge diversity of engineering projects and industries.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Cycle & Tech Scheme.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Life insurance & Pension Scheme.
• Social atmosphere, regular gatherings, and team buildings.
• Flexible way of working, role dependent.
• Ongoing learning, mentoring, and clear career development tailored to your goals.