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Company Overview Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific. Group Overview This role sits within Platform Group area of Metrea. The Platform Group
rovides the Information Technology and Information Systems ecosystem that Metrea is utilising for the day-to-day operations, communication, collaboration and information sharing across its Platform business block. Position Summary In this role, you will lead the design and operation of secure, reliable Azure platforms that enable Metrea's UK teams to build, deploy, and support mission-focused services with confidence. You will shape how we use Azure, Azure DevOps, GitHub, automation, and DevSecOps practices to improve delivery speed, platform resilience, and developer experience.
You will be successful if you can combine hands-on engineering depth with technical leadership: solving complex platform challenges, mentoring others, and making pragmatic decisions for sensitive defence environments.
Assist
with
the design, implementation, and operation of secure, scalable Azure platform services for UK programmes and internal teams
Own Azure DevOps or GitHub-based CI/CD standards, pipelines, release controls, and deployment automation across platform and application workloads
Architect and manage Azure infrastructure using infrastructure as code, including networking, identity, compute, storage, container platforms, monitoring, and governance
Build and optimise containerised workloads using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service, with resilient and repeatable deployment patterns
Define observability standards using Azure-native and third-party tooling for monitoring, logging, alerting, diagnostics, and service health reporting
Implement
DevSecOps
practices, including shift-left security, policy as code, secrets management, vulnerability management, and secure software supply chain controls
Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, identity, security, pipeline, and production issues to
maintain
reliable business-critical services
Advise software, platform, and support teams on effective Azure architecture, automation, CI/CD, and operational practices
Drive cost-aware platform decisions using data, service metrics, capacity trends, and clear value measures
Mentor engineers, champion platform engineering best practices, and help build a collaborative, high-performing
DevSecOps
culture
Proven experience in a senior platform, cloud, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering role supporting business-critical services
Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, and
operating
Microsoft Azure environments, including networking, identity, compute, storage, monitoring, and governance
Deep experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub for source control, pull requests, CI/CD pipelines, release management, deployment automation, and environment controls
Proven experience delivering infrastructure as code using Bicep, Terraform, ARM templates, or similar technologies
Strong understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure Kubernetes Service, including scalable, resilient, and automated deployment patterns
Experience implementing
DevSecOps
practices, including secure configuration, least privilege access, secrets management, vulnerability awareness, and shift-left security
Strong troubleshooting capability across cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, observability, pipeline, and application deployment issues
Ability to mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and collaborate effectively with software, platform, security, and support teams
Additional
Eligibility
The successful candidate must be able to qualify for UK Security Clearance.
Private Medical Insurance
Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
Electric Car scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Salary sacrificed pension scheme
Free lunch on office days
Enhanced Parental Leave
30 days annual PTO plus b/h
Bonus Scheme
Personal development opportunities
Work
Authorization
/
Security
Clearance The employee will have the legal right to work in the United Kingdom and will be able to produce right to work documentatio
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