QA Test Infrastructure Engineer Outside IR35 MODDefence

QA Test Infrastructure Engineer Contract MOD/Defence

Somerset 600 per day Outside IR35 DV Security Clearance Required

Are you an Infrastructure Test Engineer with strong QA and testing experience across networks platforms and Infrastructure as Code

This is an opportunity to work on complex Defence and National Security projects taking responsibility for testing and validating infrastructure before deployment into highly secure production environments.

Working alongside Infrastructure Engineers Architects and DevSecOps specialists youll assure infrastructure across physical virtualised and cloud environments ensuring it meets the required standards for functionality resilience and security.

What youll do

• Create infrastructure-focused test strategies plans and test cases.
• Carry out functional integration regression resilience and security testing.
• Test and validate Infrastructure as Code deployments.
• Validate physical virtualised and cloud infrastructure.
• Provision and verify test environments alongside DevSecOps teams.
• Build infrastructure validation and readiness testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Identify defects risks and infrastructure issues ahead of production.
• Support security assurance compliance and accreditation activities.
• Maintain appropriate test evidence and traceability.

What youll need

Strong infrastructure knowledge combined with hands-on testing and assurance experience including:

• Current DV Security Clearance
• Networking TCP/IP DNS DHCP routing switching VLANs and firewalls.
• Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting.
• VMware and virtualised infrastructure.
• Physical infrastructure including routers switches and cabling.
• Terraform and Ansible.
• Kubernetes.
• AWS Azure or GCP.
• Jenkins GitLab CI or GitHub Actions.
• Automated infrastructure validation and environment readiness testing.
• Secure-by-Design IAM OS hardening and network segmentation.

If youre an Infrastructure Engineer with strong testing experience who enjoys getting into the detail of how infrastructure performs integrates and stands up before production get in touch.

Expenses are available if you require staying over to be on site 5 days per week