DevOps Engineer
ALTEN LTD - UK is seeking a DevOps Engineer in London to work on platforms that underpin highly reliable, autonomous operations. The role contributes to the design, deployment, and ongoing operation of software infrastructure where stability, traceability, and automation are essential.
Role overview
ALTEN is a global engineering and technology consultancy operating across over 35 countries worldwide. The company partners with industry leaders across Aeronautics, Aerospace, Defence, Naval, Automotive, Energy, Rail, IT and other sectors to deliver engineering solutions that support technological advancement and sustainable transformation.
The DevOps Engineer will join a London-based team responsible for the platforms that underpin highly reliable, autonomous operations. The team delivers software infrastructure supporting critical system activities from development through to live execution.
- Location: London
- On site: 2x a month on site
- Clearance: SC clearable
- Experience level: Mid - Senior
Responsibilities
- 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
- Orchestration and lifecycle management of distributed components
- Work closely with software engineers and operations stakeholders to ensure reliable integration of critical services.
Requirements
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.
Nice to have
- 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.
Benefits
- 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
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ALTEN LTD - UK
We are a leading Engineering and IT consultancy operating across all sectors in 30 different countries. Whatever you need, we make it happen. ## What do we do and why? At ALTEN we know that the work of our clients is essential to the future, and we want to have a positive impact on the challenges facing our society and environment. We therefore aim to enable them to sustainably build the world of tomorrow. This purpose unites passionate, diligent, ambitious, and agile engineers – all committed to excellence and ready to innovate. Day to day, it means we support our customers’ development strategy with a focus on innovation and R&D activities. In the UK, our ever-growing talent pool works with key players in the Aeronautics & Space, Defence, Automotive, Rail, Energy, Life Sciences, Finance, IT, Telecommunications and Services sectors. ## What work with us? We foster a community of dually talented individuals who are both entrepreneurs and technology specialists. The proactive, entrepreneurial quality of our teams is at the heart of the ALTEN way and allows us to solve your problems most efficiently. This dual approach is supported by a commitment to sustainable growth and a vast array of initiatives promoting accelerated transformation and continuous improvement: ALTEN labs, mentoring, internal universities, etc. Our continuous growth is proof that whatever you need, we make it happen. This is what makes us your first choice. Let’s start building tomorrow, today.