Infrastructure Engineer
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Bristol, UK
Reporting To: Ben Preece
Compensation: GBP 55,000 - GBP 75,000 / year
Description
We're building the UK's next generation engineering powerhouse, providing critical technology that strengthens national security and resilience.
At Rowden, we design and integrate advanced systems that sense, connect, and protect data in challenging environments where quick decisions are vital. Our solutions use intelligent automation to enhance speed and efficiency and are built to be reliable and straightforward for critical operations in remote or high-pressure settings.
Headquartered in Bristol (UK), we combine modern engineering methods with cutting-edge commercial technology to create adaptable, mission-critical systems. We focus on solving the tough challenges that others overlook, ensuring our customers can operate effectively in an ever-changing world.
About the RoleWe are looking for an Engineer with at least 4 years of experience designing, building, and operating systems that solve real problems in areas such as Defence, Security, and the Emergency Services. This is a hybrid role, with three days a week at our Bristol HQ and up to two days working from home. Some travel to customer sites may be required.
You'll work across software, infrastructure, and integration boundaries: automating, deploying, and improving complex systems. You'll use cloud technologies, but you won't be limited to them.
Candidates must be eligible for SC Clearance.
Key skills, experience and behaviours
Essential skills and experience
* At least 4 years' experience building/operating systems on cloud, virtualised, or on-prem infrastructure.
* Practical understanding of compute, networking, storage, and identity management.
* Hands on Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or CloudFormation, plus a configuration management and automation tool like Ansible.
* Able to build and deploy versioned containers into environments or a container orchestration service.
* Some coding/scripting experience, able to write in at least one of: Python, Golang, Rust,, Java, or Bash.
* Awareness of secure system design and best practice frameworks such as NCSC Cloud Security Principles or equivalent.
* Able to apply engineering thinking to improve reliability, security, and maintainability.
Desirable (not essential)
* Experience managing multi-account or multi-tenant environments.
* Experience deploying and configuring observability tools and platforms.
* Familiarity with GitOps practices.
Who we're looking forWe value clear communicators who are hungry to learn and take ownership. Those who like to understand how systems fit together and get satisfaction from solving hard problems. You might not have deep experience in every technology, but you have enough breadth from past project work, to be a credible contributor in the platforms space. We hire people who build in their spare time, learn by doing, and take pride in their craft. Those people tend to thrive here.
Working at Rowden
We are committed to building a flexible, inclusive, and enabling company. Our aim is to create a diverse team of talented people with unique skills, experience, and backgrounds, so please apply and come as you are
We also recognise the importance of flexible working and support this wherever we can. We typically operate a flexible, hybrid-working model, with an average 3 days in the office each week (dependent on the role). We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility, part-time working requirements and/or workplace adjustments with all our applicants.
Rowden is a Disability Confident Committed company, and we actively encourage people with disabilities and health conditions to apply for our roles. Please let us know your requirements early on so that we can make sure you have everything you need up front to help make the recruitment process and experience as easy as possible.
Finally, if you feel that you don't meet all the criteria included above but have transferable skills and relevant experience, we'd still love to hear from you