Operations​/Support Engineer

Application Operations / Support Engineer

Romsey SO51, UK

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 Application Operations Engineer, 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.

You're someone who enjoys challenge, welcomes end to end ownership and a broad scope of responsibility.

As our next 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 operating and maintaining platforms and applications in both reference and live environments, developing fixes and deploying releases and updates, and triage, analysis and resolution of support tickets.

Experience

• Windows desktop OS patching and platform skills
• Windows system administration and Sys Internals
• Strong scripting skills (ideally Power Shell), Python
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Tools such as Git or Atlassian Jira/Confluence/Bit Bucket, and Jenkins

Desirable

• Some coding experience particularly with C# or C++
• Windows and Apple Mac Book devices
• Apple Mac shell scripting
• Exposure to Dev Ops or experience working in or alongside software development teams in a CI/CD environment

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… 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.

This role involves working the majority of the time on site at our Romsey location.

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.