Infrastructure Engineer
Raydar
Infrastructure Engineer
Raydar
AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles
Raydar · London, United Kingdom (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-15
Salary: GBP 90,000–105,000
Workplace: hybrid
About the company
Our client is a software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the stability and day-to-day operation of production infrastructure for secure, large-scale software deployments. Partner with engineering and delivery colleagues on design, incident response and automation, including a periodic on-call shift.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain dependable, scalable services across secure production deployments.
- Take charge of production health, covering observability, alerts, configuration control and version upgrades.
- Collaborate with delivery and product engineers on sound, scalable system design.
- Help investigate, fix and head off production incidents alongside colleagues.
- Roll out new software releases across production environments and move workloads onto newer infrastructure.
- Drive automation that removes repetitive manual work, including solutions that use modern AI tooling.
- Troubleshoot and tune services and infrastructure for lasting stability and growth.
- Join an on-call rota, about once every 5 to 6 weeks, to support production incidents.
What we're looking for
- 1 to 5 years in infrastructure engineering or site reliability engineering.
- Practical experience running dependable, high-scale production environments.
- Writes production code every day and can pass a live coding exercise; scripting alone is not sufficient.
- Hands-on production use of containers and orchestration tools.
- Proficiency in at least one of Java, Python, Go or JavaScript.
- Experience in defense technology or another technically complex organisation.
- Degree in computer science or software engineering from an accredited university.
- History of replacing manual work with automation and strengthening system stability.
- Comfortable with a fast-moving, self-directed setting that includes on-call duty.
- Currently holds active UK DV security clearance and meets the associated nationality requirement.
- Lives within a short commute of the London secure site, or is ready to relocate there.
Bonus points
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling or CI/CD pipelines.
- Defense technology or government background.
- Deep Kubernetes knowledge.
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: GBP 90,000 to 105,000 per year
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Flexible time off
- Paid holidays
- Parental leave and family benefits
- Retirement plan
- Relocation support
Location and work model
- London, United Kingdom
- Hybrid, with in-office work expected and 1 to 2 days per week working from home
- Full-time
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Raydar is an AI-powered talent acquisition firm that serves tech-focused organizations on a contingency basis, charging client companies only after a successful hire. It uses proprietary AI to identify a large pool of candidates and conducts a short 15-minute AI-driven interview (recorded and transcribed) before human recruiters review materials, provide interview prep, and assist with offers and negotiations. What sets it apart is the blend of automated sourcing and screening with hands-on human oversight and tailored client support. Its goal is to help organizations hire more efficiently by speeding up sourcing while maintaining thorough evaluation and negotiation assistance.
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