Introduction
Saab UK is part of Scandinavia’s largest defence company, bringing together the best of Swedish and British innovation. Saab offers world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space, and civil security to keep people and society safe. Our UK presence has been growing at pace, meaning we can offer a wide range of opportunities for personal fulfilment and career growth. We currently employ over 600 people across eight sites in the UK, and our specialisations include software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training.
What you will be part of
Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring purpose, to help nations keep their people and society safe.
Empowered by its 28,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.
Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems.
Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations.
The Role:
This is a 12 month fixed term contract position.
Saab Public Safety Solutions is part of Scandinavia's largest defence company, bringing together the best of Swedish and British innovation. Saab offers world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space, and civil security to help keep people and society safe.
Within Saab UK, Public Safety Solutions (PSS) develops advanced software applications and mission critical solutions used by Police, Fire & Rescue, Airports and other public safety organisations. Our solutions support real-time operational environments where resilience, availability and security are essential.
As part of our continued growth and transformation towards providing managed services, we are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Architect to help shape, design and implement scalable and resilient hosting platforms for mission critical software systems and aid decision making on approach (e.g. public cloud vs private cloud) and other key design choices.
This is a hands-on technical role suited to someone who combines strong architecture capability with practical delivery experience across cloud/on-premise infrastructure, automation, networking, security and operational readiness.
Key Responsibilities:
Design and implement secure, scalable and resilient cloud-hosted managed service platforms
Define infrastructure architecture for mission critical applications, including:
Cloud hosting (public or private cloud)
Networking
Resilience and disaster recovery
High availability
Performance and scalability
Security and operational monitoring
Automated deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Work closely with software engineering and DevOps teams to enable cloud-native deployment models
Develop and improve infrastructure-as-code and automation capabilities
Support major bids and customer engagements with infrastructure and hosting architecture expertise
Produce high and low-level technical designs and supporting documentation
Define operational readiness requirements for managed service environments
Support platform standardisation, governance and technical assurance activities
Work with customers and third-party suppliers to integrate infrastructure into existing enterprise environments
Contribute to cloud migration, modernisation and platform transformation initiatives
Provide technical leadership and mentoring across infrastructure and platform engineering domains
Support operational teams with third-line technical expertise where required
Qualifications and Skills:
Proven experience as an Infrastructure Architect, Cloud Architect or Platform Architect in complex enterprise environments
Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing cloud-hosted platforms and managed services
Demonstrable experience with cloud hosting (Microsoft Azure, AWS cloud environments or private cloud)
Strong understanding of:
Infrastructure architecture
Cloud networking
Security and identity
Disaster recovery
Resilience engineering
Performance optimisation
Operational support models
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling such as:
Terraform
Ansible
Packer
PowerShell
CI/CD pipelines
Experience working with Kubernetes, containers and modern platform technologies
Strong knowledge of networking concepts including:
Firewalls
VPNs
Load balancing
DNS
Routing
SD-WAN
Experience working within highly available or mission critical systems environments
Ability to work across both strategic architecture and practical technical delivery
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Comfortable working in Agile and collaborative engineering environments
Knowledge and experience designing and implementing highly-available voice solution
Preferrable experience with UK Emergency Services, Telephony & Airwave (Radio) connectivity / infrastructure
Experience delivering managed services or SaaS platforms
Experience within public safety, defence, government or other highly regulated industries
VMware and hybrid infrastructure experience
Knowledge of observability, monitoring and SIEM integration
Experience with cloud governance and FinOps practices
Familiarity with Zero Trust security principles
Experience supporting operational transformation towards DevOps/SRE models
TOGAF, Azure, AWS or Kubernetes certifications
By submitting an application to Saab UK you consent to undertaking workforce screening activities that may include but are not limited to: Baseline Personnel Security checks, National Security Vetting, reference checks, verification of working rights and in all circumstances preferred candidates will be placed through a security interview.