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    "description": "<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Work on Technology That Protects What Matters</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">At <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">SiXworks</span>, we build secure digital solutions that support <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Defence and National Security missions</span>. Our teams work on complex problems where reliability, security, and speed of innovation matter.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">We’re looking for a <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">QA Test Infrastructure Engineer</span> who enjoys solving difficult technical challenges and wants their work to have real operational impact.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><br></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><em><span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">This role is on site 5 days a week in Somerset</span></span></em></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><br></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">What You’ll Do</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">As a <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">QA Test Infrastructure Engineer</span>, you’ll help design, build, and deliver secure digital solutions in highly secure environments. You’ll work alongside engineers, architects, and delivery specialists to develop technology that enables faster, safer decision-making for critical operations.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Your work may include:</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Ensuring quality of products</span> as they move from prototype / proof of concept into Production.  </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Analyse infrastructure requirements and architectures</span>; identify test conditions; maintain traceability; log risks.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Create infrastructure-focused test strategies</span> and plans defining scope, environments, tooling, automation, and governance entry/exit criteria.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Provision and validate test environments</span> in collaboration with DevSecOps, ensuring OS, network, platform services, monitoring, and pipelines align to readiness standards.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Design and execute tests</span> across physical infrastructure and IaC, including functional, integration, regression, resilience, non-functional, and security-related scenarios.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Apply Secure-by-Design principles</span>; support security testing; contribute to accreditation, assurance, and compliance documentation.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">What We’re Looking For</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">We value people who take ownership, think critically, and enjoy working as part of a collaborative team tackling complex challenges. You don’t need to tick every box, but we’re particularly interested in people with skills/experience in:</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><br></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Infrastructure, Networking &amp; Operating Systems</span></span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, switching, firewalls, VLANs, and related network behaviours.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Experience with physical infrastructure setup and troubleshooting (routers, switches, cabling).</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Proficiency with Linux/Unix command line for diagnostics, configuration, and validation.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Experience working across virtualisation platforms (VMware, VirtualBox) and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><br></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Infrastructure as Code (IaC)</span></span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Terraform: writing/validating HCL, managing state, using modules.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Ansible: building playbooks/roles, inventories, and validating idempotency.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Kubernetes: deploying workloads, validating manifests, managing clusters, and testing containerised applications.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><br></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">CI/CD &amp; Automation</span></span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Familiarity with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Experience integrating IaC validation and environment checks into automated pipelines.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Understanding of pipeline gating, automated readiness checks, and environment orchestration.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><br></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Security &amp; Compliance </span></span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Strong grounding in Secure-by-Design principles, IAM, least privilege, OS hardening, network segmentation, and observability.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Experience within regulated or highly governed environments (e.g., MOD or similar).</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Ability to support compliance, assurance, and accreditation activity.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Just as important are curiosity, strong problem solving ability, and the motivation to continuously improve how technology is designed and delivered.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">About SiXworks</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">SiXworks is a specialist digital innovation partner delivering secure, mission-critical technology to Defence and National Security organisations. We focus on digital experimentation, secure-by-design architecture, cloud technologies, and rapid application development to help our customers move faster and stay ahead of evolving challenges.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Our team combines expertise from across technology, business, and operational backgrounds including the armed forces creating a collaborative environment where practical thinking and innovation thrive.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Why Join Us</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Our culture is guided by six principles: <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Agility, Security, Innovation, Quality, Collaboration and Inclusivity</span> our North Star for how we work. SiXworks is a leading provider of secure digital solutions, specialising in digital experimentation and focused on fail-safe-fast cutting-edge technology solutions deployed in highly secure environments.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span>As an end-to-end digital innovation and delivery partner, we turn complex challenges into mission-critical digital advantages. This is a thrilling time for us, with ambitious plans for growth. We are looking for brilliant, experienced, driven and self-motivated people to join the team on our journey.</span><br></span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">A word on UK Security Clearance</span> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Due to the secure nature of the position and working environment, you must have or be eligible to obtain Security Clearance. More details relating to UK Security Clearance can be found here:  </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span><a href=\"https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Funited-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels&amp;data=05%7C02%7CLuke.Orrin%40sixworks.net%7C64f380e5c6ed427e9de108dea51896d7%7C16c8376f247644579557015dd8b54f0c%7C0%7C0%7C639129722215652637%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=yjkHqGJz9LaOjI0ku8Mqe%2Bi2foNKqiWUyxVV%2BgheIQc%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</span></a></span><span> </span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Interested?</span> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt\">Please apply!</span></p>",
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