Automation Team Leader

We are recruiting an Automation Team Leader to join our dynamic and innovative team at SSCL, driving the transformation of Defence Business Services. You will be responsible for a team of talented Cloud Infrastructure Engineers, providing technical design, implementation and support of infrastructure technologies to our Government and Defence clients.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

This role will require travel into the Gosport office on a regular basis, for training or client needs. This role will also require on-call working.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing a team of Cloud Infrastructure Engineers.
• Evaluating hardware and software across server, network, storage, and desktop environments.
• Ensuring service level agreements (SLAs) are adhered to, escalating when necessary.
• Accurately estimating task completion times and ensuring robust operational procedures.

What you’ll bring:

• Demonstrable experience leading technical teams within infrastructure management.
• Expertise in cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, and OCI.
• Knowledge of automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Strong documentation skills for both end-user and operational use.
• Experience in customer support environments with a focus on business impact.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience working with both Windows and Unix systems.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time Permanent

Location: Gosport

Security Clearance Level: DV

Internal Recruiter: Annecia

Salary: up to £60,000

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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SSCL is the market leader in critical business support services for the UK public sector. Operating at size and scale since 2013, SSCL has delivered over £750 million of savings - providing more funds for front line public services. We transform services using digital solutions and innovative technology, developing platforms that enable flexibility to meet the changing needs of our Government, Defence and Police clients.

We employ around 3,000 people who sit at the heart of our business strategy. Their passion and connection to our values and our purpose is what sets us apart and puts SSCL in the Top 20 of GPTW large workplaces. 'Living SSCL’ means we deliver social value within our services and work with our clients and community partners to support programmes such as education and employability initiatives across the UK.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.???????