Technical Lead

Date Posted: 2026-03-27 Country: United Kingdom Location: Warminster, Wiltshire Position Role Type: Hybrid Raytheon UK is searching for a Technical Lead to join our OMNIA® Training team. As Technical Lead, you will be critical to the successful delivery of the programme, collaborating within matrix organisation across multi-disciplinary teams . The Technical Lead role requires a customer first mindset, strong stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability work in a multidisciplinary engineering team in a complex and evolving environment. OMNIA are redefining the British Army’s collective training. To do that, we are looking for the best and brightest minds from across the UK. We are backed by British innovation and powered by world-class experts, like you. We are looking for individuals who want to serve. You’ll have a mission focus, and the enthusiasm and drive to deliver. You must be eligible and willing to obtain SC clearance and will be based at Warminster working in a hybrid style. Key Responsibilities: Provide technical leadership for the live operational estate, ensuring the stability, performance, and availability of production systems and services. Act as the senior technical authority for service operations teams supporting cloud-based platforms, training systems, and business applications. Lead technical investigation and resolution of major incidents affecting live production services. Oversee operational support activities across infrastructure, applications, and platform services deployed in cloud environments. Provide technical oversight for system performance, reliability, and service resilience across the live estate. Manage and oversee patching and vulnerability management processes, ensuring systems are maintained in line with security policies and operational requirements. Work closely with engineering, DevOps, and service management teams to ensure smooth operation of CI/CD pipelines and production deployments. Support operational readiness for system releases, ensuring production environments are prepared for new capabilities and updates. Ensure monitoring, logging, and observability practices are implemented to maintain visibility of system health and performance. Provide technical guidance and mentoring to service operations teams, supporting effective troubleshooting and incident resolution. Contribute to continual service improvement by identifying operational risks, performance issues, and opportunities for optimisation. Required Skills and Experience: Experience providing first-line IT support within a service desk or technical support environment. Proven experience supporting and managing live production systems within complex defence, government or regulated enterprise or cloud environments. Strong technical expertise in cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS and their operational support models. Experience supporting containerised applications and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker or OpenShift). Experience diagnosing and resolving complex production incidents across infrastructure, platforms, and applications. Strong understanding of DevOps and CI/CD practices supporting deployment and operation of modern platforms. Experience managing system patching and vulnerability remediation activities in operational environments. Experience working with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack). Experience coordinating technical activities across engineering, support, and service management teams. Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems and cloud-based services. Experience supporting operational environments governed by ITIL service management practices. Desirable Skills and Experience: Experience supporting cloud-based environments (e.g. Azure, AWS) or hybrid infrastructure. Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Grafana, ELK stack, Prometheus). Experience supporting users within secure or regulated environments. Experience supporting users during operational events, exercises, or high-demand periods. What we offer: Chance to join a groundbreaking mission - to shape the future and drive innovation within a team focused on collaboration across a matrix organisation. You will join at a unique time, where you can join in shaping this team and be rewarded with ongoing development opportunities, and clear pathways to progress within a trusted defence industry partner. 37hr working week with early finish Fridays - start your weekend early! 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days and up to 5 paid days volunteering 10.5% company pension contribution with 6% employee contribution Annual company bonus scheme (discretionary) 6 times salary Life Assurance with pension Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work, amongst others Enhanced sick pay Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave Raytheon UK We take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world. RTX Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. #LI-AS3 RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Privacy Policy and Terms: Click on this link to read the Policy and Terms RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.