DevOps & Virtualisation Project Lead Location: Bristol Salary: £60,000 to £70,000 – Dependant on experience Headline Benefits: A bonus of up to £2500, Strong pension, Paid Overtime, 25 days annual leave, enhanced parental leave. We’re working with an award-winning, world-leading, technical & scientific engineering organisation, with sites across Europe, that has an exciting opportunity for a technically minded Software Project Leader with a history of deploying both Virtualised and Containerised systems, to join a small talented team to develop systems for the next generation of advanced military systems. DevOps & Virtualisation Project Lead We work on technology at the forefront of European military system design, delivering safe, secure, and reliable products to our customers. This is a hands-on project management role, supporting the continued design and development of Virtual and Container based systems. The work will involve planning and bid estimating, allocating work, tracking progress, working with supplier teams to define system requirements, and resolving current issues including competing demands and conflicts. This role includes involvement in all aspects of the development, integration, delivery into service and service support aspects. Working with cutting edge technologies across a range of land and maritime defence projects, developing solutions to implement virtual technologies to replicate and replace physical hardware. Acting as a role model to both the team and the wider organisation by promoting innovative approaches to delivery whilst ensuring our strong commitment to safe, high-quality code is maintained. Leading research and development into how virtualisation and containerisation can be used in our current and future products. DevOps & Virtualisation Project Lead experience required: * A passion for software engineering and management, being able to innovate and think critically to solve complex software problems. * Software engineering experience with Virtualisation & Containerisation technologies – VMware, and Docker. * You will need to be adaptable and creative as this role combines technical team leadership, project management and team building aspects. Software project management and team leading is the largest part of the role but it also requires a strong technical understanding. * Experience developing in Python and other languages. * Experience with DevOps and/or DevSecOps. * Experience working in a continuous integration environment and be familiar with build processes and tools such as Jenkins and GitLab. * A knowledge of networking, TCP/IP would be beneficial and also experience working with Linux, scripting languages and Hypervisors. * Comfortable working with a team in a collaborative environment, communicating and contributing to design and implementation decisions, and supporting integration. * Ability to succinctly document working knowledge and processes via Wiki (Confluence). Please note: Rules onsite require British Citizenship. Dual nationals can apply for this position, and you will be required to undergo UK Security Clearance. Their order book stretches for many years, and they have healthy profits and a range of new projects in place. They’re stable with steady controlled growth, offer dynamic working, and fantastic opportunities to grow and develop your career further. The business are firm believers in offering all staff the best possible platform to succeed, providing support for career development as well as personal assistance. They hold numerous awards on the back of this work and have a range of employee networks and internal communities that include Parents and Carers, Gender Equality, Neurodiversity, Pride, Ethnic Diversity and many more. They really care about their staff and are passionate about what they do and why they do it. Cirrus Selection offers the services of an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and the services of an Employment Business for contract recruitment