Infrastructure Engineer

Date Posted:

2026-06-12

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Gloucester, South Gloucestershire

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Raytheon UK have an opportunity for an Infrastructure Engineer to join our teams at our Gloucester, Manchester or London sites. All candidates must already hold eDV to be eligible.

As Infrastructure Engineer, you will contribute to delivering and maintaining operational systems in our many business areas and this role will be office based.

In this area of the business we provide DevSecOps at scale, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, cyber and geospatial intelligence capabilities to support the defence, intelligence and cyber sectors. Collaborating with customers and suppliers to deliver secure, mission critical systems using the latest technologies and innovations.

Responsibilities

• Perform system administration and backup tasks

• Assist in the investigation and resolution of issues relating to applications, networks and services

• Contribute to maintenance, installation and problem resolution

• Researching and resolving system design issues

• Provide interpretation of requirements and design into the component design and implementation

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience working within an Agile / SCRUM / DevOps delivery model

• Experience as a Systems Engineer in software intensive programmes covering full engineering lifecycle from requirements decomposition to acceptance and customer sign off

• Understanding of the complexities in design and implementation of large-scale information systems

• Ability to take responsibility for technical aspects of a project, and to work closely with project management to deliver

• Linux administration and deployment

• Understanding of server, storage and desktop hardware

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience working in a Linux environment (RedHat, CentOS)

• Knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory, OU, User and Group Management

• Demonstrable experience of model-based systems architecture/engineering (e.g. MODAF, TOGAF)

• Knowledge of RedHat migrations

• Knowledge of networking health monitoring

• Knowledge of Concourse (writing pipelines, administering the cluster)

• Understanding of VMware vSphere ESXi

• Knowledge of Atlassian Suite

• Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)

• Docker / Kubernetes containerisation and orchestration

• Elasticsearch/Kibana

• Cloud services (AWS or Azure)

• Helm charts

• MongoDB

• Experience building enterprise level web applications or services

• Apache Kafka

We appreciate you may not be an expert in every area above - we can support with training and development in some areas! Please do make an application and we will identify where we can best support your growth specific to your application.

Benefits & Work Culture

Benefits:

• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)

• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days

• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)

• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension

• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others

• Enhanced sick pay

• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture:

• 37hr working week, we largely have early 1.30pm finish Fridays!

• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements to be reviewed on request

About us

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.

RTX
Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.

Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over £2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We’re investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales.

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