DevOps Engineers (National Security Open Day)

Location: Manchester (on-site event)
Clearance: Active SC clearance or higher required 
Format: Invitation-only open day
Timing: Late May

The Opportunity

We’re partnering with one of the UK’s most respected National Security engineering organisations to host a small, invite-only open day at their Manchester site.

This is not a standard interview process. It’s an opportunity to step inside an environment where DevOps sits at the centre of complex engineering programmes, supporting everything from cloud platforms through to embedded systems, AI workloads and edge compute.

The organisation brings together engineers, scientists and specialists to solve problems that don’t have established playbooks. Teams are trusted to experiment, collaborate across disciplines and move between projects to stay technically fresh.

This open day is scheduled for late May, with a limited number of spaces available.

The Role (Context for the Day)

As a DevOps Engineer in this environment, you would typically be working across the full software delivery lifecycle, supporting complex systems that span cloud, on-premise and edge environments.

Typical responsibilities and technologies include:

• Building and evolving CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or similar tooling
• Automating infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CDK or Infrastructure as Code patterns
• Deploying and managing containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes
• Supporting environments that include virtualisation platforms and edge systems
• Applying SRE principles using Prometheus, Grafana and monitoring tooling
• Embedding security practices across delivery including vulnerability scanning and software supply chain controls
• Supporting engineers across software, ML and hardware domains to onboard onto shared DevOps platforms

The environment is intentionally broad. Engineers are expected to work across cloud, infrastructure and software delivery rather than specialising in a single narrow toolset.

The Format

We’re selecting a small group of high-quality engineers to attend a single session towards the end of May.

On the day you’ll get:

• A walkthrough of the Manchester site and how engineering teams operate
• Exposure to real DevOps challenges across cloud, edge and high-assurance systems
• Conversations with engineers working across different domains
• Insight into how projects are structured and how engineers move between them
• A low-pressure environment to explore fit without committing to a formal process

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