Job Description

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Description

About Rowden

We're building the next UK-headquartered engineering powerhouse.

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.

The role: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our dynamic team at Rowden Technologies supporting one of our most important customers.




While you'll be working at our HQ in Bristol, you'll be working full-time with one of customers as part of a hybrid team of contractors and military personnel for a government organisation. This key position requires a dynamic, customer focussed engineer capable of designing, developing, building, deploying and supporting mission critical services across a range on cloud infrastructure (focussed on AWS). While you'll have support of the wider team, day-to-day you'll be working with our customers, and will need to be able to work in a self-directed way.




While this role offers hybrid working options, it requires a minimum of 2 days per week at our office in Bristol. Regular travel to the customer's site in the West Midlands will be expected (likely once a week). The costs of this travel will be factored into the overall package.




Candidates must be willing to obtain a UKNSV security clearance with SC being essential, and DV clearance desirable. The candidate does not need to already have a clearance in place. More information about security clearance is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels

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Key Areas of Responsibility

As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Rowden, your expertise will be pivotal in building and architecting solutions that support both our operational needs and strategic objectives.



Your key responsibilities will include:Workload integration, deployment, documentation and subsequent monitoring and patching, ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of services. Collaborating with development teams to integrate DevOps methodologies and practice into the software development lifecycle. Interfacing with our account manager on progress updates and upcoming customer needs.


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About You

Key skills, experience and behaviours

We are looking for someone who is passionate about technology and who actively invests in their technical skills and abilities. You'll gain loads of experience in this role but before you do, you should have:Public Cloud Expertise: Experience across multiple cloud platforms, with a focus on AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation) Proven Customer Focus: Direct experience of being the face of an organisation to customers - and those customers being delighted by your work. Expertise in infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible and experience using Python,Golang or other object orientated programming languages. Comprehensive knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, and container technologies; Docker, Podman, orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and version control systems such as Git. Strong grounding in IT security practices, including application hardening and secure software development lifecycles.

Key attributes

The ideal candidate will have a strong balance of technical skills and experience, and should be comfortable:Planning complex solution architectures at both a broad and detailed level. Explaining those plans to business stakeholders of varying technical levels. Taking complete ownership of architecture designs and delivery, including managing a team (if required) for highly secure environments. Providing clear documentation and architecture diagrams, including governance, policies and runbooks. Presenting and knowledge sharing skills, using whiteboards and other tools, with the ability to work effectively internally, with partners and with customers.


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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!



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!###

About Rowden

Our Mission:

To create the best possible technology for frontline operators.



We're upending the conventions of government technology provision and bringing a leaner, more transparent, and lower-friction approach that reduces waste and places outcome over process. We believe every possible measure should be taken to provide frontline operators in today's dynamic and rapidly changing world with the technology they need to help keep themselves and others safe.

Our Vision:

We offer fast and flexible solutions to the technical challenges of public sector organisations.


We are specialists in software-centric systems, with deep expertise in developing capabilities for constrained networking environments or with challenging cyber security requirements. But the Rowden difference is as much cultural as it is technical: 'what we do' and 'how we do it' are equally important. We are specifically organised to create and sustain pace, reduce waste and inefficiency, and drive better outcomes. You'll see and feel that energy and intent all over our business.

What matters to us?

Our focus is on the end user. We exist to deliver the best possible outcomes for the users of our systems. Pace matters. The problems we solve are urgent. Our diverse skills and backgrounds make us better. Our team prides itself on being inclusive and multidisciplinary. We are radically honest. Saying what we mean, even when it isn't easy. We are pragmatists. We provide realistic, focused solutions that get to the point. * We improve continuously. We are relentless in our drive to make things better.