Overview

Posted Friday 19 September 2025 at 00:00

Great ideas come from different minds. That’s why we bring together engineers, scientists, analysts, and creatives from every background — and give them the trust, tools, and freedom to make a difference. What connects us is the mission: solving meaningful problems and building capability that protects what matters most. And as the challenges evolve, so do we — working on the technologies that will shape tomorrow, not just today.

Application Operations Engineer

National Security Business
Be part of a growing and highly trusted supplier into the NS domain working to deliver mission critical solutions helping to keep the nation safe, secure and prosperous.

Working on leading edge technology solutions including AI/DS, Cyber, Cloud, DevOPs/SRE, Platform Engineering

We have secured long term work, across the full spectrum, on the latest framework with the client, which provides the springboard for our ongoing growth and development in this domain, so join us on what will be an incredible growth journey.

Role

As an Engineer supporting bespoke applications for our clients, you thrive on being integral to the mission; working collaboratively with customer and development teams to maintain and sustain operational integrity of mission critical National Security services through-life. As our next Applications Operations Engineer, you’ll be resolving issues before your customers notice and ensuring continued operational integrity of services that are strategically important to the nation. You will be deploying to both reference and live environments, supporting the development, testing, and deployment of code through CI/CD into integration, reference, and operational environments, and owning the triage/analysis and resolution of support tickets.

Requirements

• Experience with Linux system administration, particularly with virtualisation or containerisation technologies such as Docker
• Use of Infrastructure as Code technologies (IaC) such as Ansible
• Recent experience with Python scripting

Desirable

• Exposure to DevOps or experience working alongside software development teams in a CI/CD environment and using tools such as Gitlab and Jenkins
• Interest in automation scripting, or coding (e.g. in Java) would be advantageous

Company

Built on over a 60 year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act – through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe – that’s our mission, passion, and motivation.

Where you’ll work

ROMSEY - You’ll find our Romsey site located within beautiful Hampshire countryside, close to the picturesque New Forest District and not far from a superb stretch of the south coast. This is no corporate concrete jungle; this is a manor house site, with ample parking an on-site gym and a driveway full of daffodils in the spring. Predominantly working on site with flexibility for hybrid working where client delivery and project needs permit.

GLOUCESTER - You’ll find our Gloucester site in a business park two minutes from junction 11A of the M5; The site allows easy access to our local customer base. Set on the outskirts of the Cotswolds, you are never far from a picturesque view or lunch time walk. Predominantly working on site with flexibility for hybrid working where client delivery and project needs permit.

This role involves - working the majority of the time on site at our Romsey or Gloucester location, or client site

Clearances

Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve DV clearance.

The Next Step

Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.