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DevOps Senior Operations Engineer Our Client is looking to recruit a Senior DevOps Engineer with at least 5 to 7 years expertise. They are a young talented team building the next generation video advertising platform. The key purpose of this role is focused on development in the capacity of improvements to the systems and operational environment by scripting, automation or building of tools. There are several key areas that require constant development: • Automation – Enhancements to the automation build process. Enhancements are continuously added to the base repository as well as additions of new technologies. • Scripting and Tools – There are many processes, tasks that can be made easier using scripts or custom designed tools in a managed services environment. We are looking for someone with knowledge of networking and storage, virtualization and operating systems, as well as good knowledge of the Architecture side of the role. Ideal skills and experience - what are you bringing to the party? • Experience working in operations - making sure the wheels are greased and the ship is humming along • Automation, Packaging, Deployments (Custom Hypervisor, Puppet, Git, scripting, CI services) • Source Code version control systems: Git & SVN • Monitoring: NewRelic, PagerDuty, etc • Programming Languages: Bash, PHP, GoLang • Virtualisation: We have a custom hypervisor (ZPF) but things like VMWare ESXi/KVM/oVirt/RHEV • Classics: Apache, MySQL, Redis, Varnish • Logstash & Elasticsearch • Networking (switching, routing, firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPN, load balancing, DNS, Cisco, F5, Akamai) • Multi cloud setup - AWS, Digital Ocean, Rackspace, Linode etc • DNS, NTP, SMTP, Jenkins • A solid background in Linux System Administration Functions and responsibilities This is a dynamic and varied role, which includes things like: • Build, deployment and maintenance of new and existing environments • Designing and maintaining highly available architectures • Security (patch management, vulnerability scanning & monitoring) • Uptime – design and maintain the systems and networking for uptime, resilience, architecting for failure. • Evaluation of new, cutting-edge technologies to help improve business processes and streamline • Develop highly-available, scalable, robust systems and take ownership of problems as they occur • Undertake ad-hoc out of business hours work for occasional technical support The salary for this role will be in the range £60K - £80K. Please send your CV to us in Word format.

Le contexte Pour un acteur international de la tech évoluant dans un environnement à forte exigence de sécurité, nous recherchons un Security Operations Engineer expérimenté. L'équipe Security Operations protège les environnements corporate, cloud, SaaS et datacenter : anticipation, détection, investigation et réponse aux menaces sur les endpoints, workloads, identités et l'infrastructure. Équipe réduite, senior et exigeante, qui construit en continu son propre SOC : intégration de sources de logs, qualité de la donnée, couverture de détection, dashboards, workflows et un SOC agentique développé en interne. Stack : Splunk (SIEM) · CrowdStrike (EDR) · Wiz (CSPM/CNAPP) · Torq (SOAR) · AWS (dont EKS/Kubernetes) · SOC agentique interne La mission Renforcer immédiatement la capacité opérationnelle en absorbant le RUN du SOC, tout en contribuant au BUILD dès que la charge le permet. Cible indicative : ~60 % RUN / ~40 % BUILD. Profil recherché : operator-builder — capable de mener seul des investigations complexes et de livrer du code, des détections et des automatisations de qualité production. Volet RUN — opérer le SOC (priorité) Triage, classification et priorisation des alertes (Splunk, CrowdStrike, Wiz, AWS) Investigations de bout en bout : endpoints, cloud, identités, SaaS, workloads, infra — collecte de preuves, timeline, root cause Pilotage de la réponse à incident : containment, remediation, post-mortems Point d'escalade pour les analystes juniors (revue d'analyses, partage de connaissance) Exploitation du SOC agentique pour absorber le volume de signaux faibles Documentation rigoureuse de chaque investigation Volet BUILD — faire progresser le SOC Detection engineering : conception et optimisation de recherches Splunk (SPL), nouveaux use cases (AWS/IAM, EKS/K8s, workloads), réduction du bruit Qualité de la donnée & pipeline : intégration de sources de logs, parsing, normalisation (CIM), data models, performance Automatisation : workflows Torq/SOAR, scripts et intégrations API (Python, Bash, GitHub Actions) SOC agentique : contribution à son évolution (workflows d'investigation, corrélation, enrichissement) Reporting & dashboards, cloud security (Wiz, AWS/EKS), threat hunting (CTI/OSINT), capitalisation (runbooks, playbooks, standards)

Windows Operations Engineer - DV Cleared (Contract) Role Description We are seeking a Windows Operations Engineer to manage, maintain, and optimise an operations platform and Windows domain environment. This role will handle day-to-day support and administrative operations, including user/group provisioning, incident management, OS and application patching, certificate rotations, and terminal installation and troubleshooting. Additionally, you will contribute to project-based initiatives that enhance the platform's usability, reliability and security. Responsibilities ● Handle ticket-based incident management and service requests. ● Perform administration, including user/group provisioning, terminal installation/rebuilds, OS and application patching, and certificate rotations. ● Maintain, secure, debug, and improve the operations infrastructure. ● Deliver project-based platform improvements and perform administration in line with user-base priorities. ● Produce and maintain operational documentation and share knowledge regarding processes and the Windows domain. Minimum Qualifications (MQs) ● Experience with Windows desktop and server administration (including Active Directory, Hyper-V and MECM/WSUS) ● Experience in support desk operations ● Enterprise Linux administration Must hold security clearance to the Developed Vetting (DV) level Location: Farnborough (on-site) Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take a minimum 18 weeks. LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance. An award-winning organisation, having secured the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade over multiple years. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience. Please Note: If a high volume of applications is received, only candidates shortlisted will be contacted.

Network Operations Engineer Locations: London, Hampshire, or Wiltshire. Must have Experience : ● 3-5 years of experience with Linux systems administration or kubernetes. ● WAN & BGP * MPLS / L3 VPN * Kernel level networking * Production kubernetes experience * Kubernetes networking * Automation Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance. An award-winning organisation, having secured the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade over multiple years. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience. Please Note: If a high volume of applications is received, only candidates shortlisted will be contacted.