Infrastructure Engineer

Rowden is one of Europe’s fastest-growing engineering businesses. Our mission is to build a high-performing, UK-headquartered company that develops exceptional talent, strengthens sovereign capability, and delivers systems that genuinely support frontline users and critical industries around the world.

• 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.

• Building and managing cloud platforms to support ongoing projects.
• Creating reliable systems and services through automation and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Partnering with development teams to improve their workflows through rigorous testing and release procedures.
• Providing expertise on networks, security and databases.
• Gathering and analysing metrics from operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.

• At least 3 years’ experience building/operating systems on cloud, virtualised, or on-prem infrastructure.
• 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 a container orchestration service.
• Some coding/scripting experience, comfortable in at least one of: Python, Golang, JavaScript, 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.

• Practical understanding of compute, networking, storage, and/or identity management.
• Experience managing multi-account or multi-tenant environments.
• Experience deploying and configuring observability tools and platforms.
• Familiarity with GitOps practices.
• Experience configuring and using Linux systems.