Job Description

Are you a curious, driven graduate or someone early in your career looking to step into the world of DevOps? Do you enjoy solving problems, learning new tools, and making systems run more smoothly, securely, and efficiently? If so, we'd love to hear from you.


As our new Junior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in supporting our cloud-based services. Based in a secure and fast-paced environment, you'll enjoy a varied workload with exposure to the latest technologies. You'll also have the chance to work directly with users of our cloud platform, gaining valuable insight and practical experience from day one.


We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

What you'll be doing:

Monitoring and maintaining the health of our cloud platform. Investigating and resolving technical issues to ensure seamless service delivery. Carrying out routine tasks such as software updates and system checks. Working alongside engineers to improve automation and service reliability. Contributing ideas to enhance our tools, processes, and customer experience.

What you'll bring:

Experience of providing technical support (ideally within an ITIL framework). Working with virtualisation tools (e.g, VMware). Exposure to cloud platforms (on-prem or public). Basic Windows and/or Linux administration. Editing web content (HTML). Using Excel or similar tools for basic data analysis. Familiarity with a scripting or programming language.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type:

Full-time - Permanent

Location:

Hybrid working, based onsite at either our Salisbury or Portsmouth 2/3 days per week.

Security Clearance Level:

Eligible for SC clearance, with a willingness to progress to DV.

I

nternal Recruiter:

Carolyne

Salary:

35-40K

Benefits:

25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund


Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets.