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Title: Lead DevOps Engineer
Reports to: Head of Enterprise IT Engineering
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Company Overview
Metrea is a defense company dedicated to translating commercial innovation into solutions for the hardest problems in national security. With deep mission expertise, Metrea focuses on delivering effects-as-a-service across Aerospace, Electromagnetic & Cyber, Digital & Synthetic domains via its capability groups. Metrea also consists of six support groups (Operations, People, Finance, Legal, Strategy and Solutions) that guide the development of specific capabilities that Metrea's files (product, projects, programs etc) leverage to achieve their targets.
Group Overview
Metrea Management is our global shared service providing support for the Capabilities in areas such as People, Finance, Legal, Strategy and Information Technology.
Position Summary
The Lead DevOps Engineer is responsible for the strategic design and hands on oversight of workstreams relating to DevOps, Security and Network support for the UK and Europe.
As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you’ll be leading the design and implementation of cloud and on-prem infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containerised applications, security and observability solutions. You’ll drive the adoption of best practices for automation, scalability, and reliability while ensuring the platform is secure, highly available, and cost efficient. Having worked in a similar industry, the Lead DevOps Engineer will have the knowledge and experience to develop DevSecOps solutions, basing their decision making around considerations relating to highly sensitive workloads.
This individual will join a dedicated team of regionally-based, first-line support engineers, responsible for providing exceptional support to around 200 employees across the UK and Europe.
Role and Responsibilities
Skills and Experience
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
Essential
Desired
Our Firmware
Metrea’s single core value, “rooted in humility,” is supported by four key attributes: entrepreneurial, systematic, discerning, and over-deliver. These attributes, combined, form our Teammate Firmware, our culture. We explore these attributes during the hiring process when we grow our teams and continually support the growth of our Firmware. We are a hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical organization united by a passion for what we do, how we do it, who we do it with, and who we do it for.
Benefits
Private Medical Insurance
Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
Cycle to work scheme
Salary sacrificed pension scheme
Free lunch on office days
Enhanced Parental Leave
Right to Work
The employee will have the legal right to work in the United Kingdom and will be able to produce right to work documentation.
Equal Opportunities Statement
Metrea Management Limited (MAMK) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require. Non-Exempt employees may be required to work over 40 hours per week with approval from the department manager.
Work Location
London office based in Hammersmith
Work Environment (please verify the below information)
This job operates in an office setting
Travel
Some travel will be needed to other office as and when required