OAT Quality Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Current SC Clearance
• Proven experience delivering Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) within enterprise environments
• Strong experience testing availability, resilience and disaster recovery capabilities
• Experience validating operational processes, procedures and service management practices
• Knowledge of backup and restore, deployment, patching, infrastructure connectivity and server testing
• Experience testing cloud-hosted applications, ideally within AWS environments
• Strong understanding of operational readiness, service transition and production supportability
• Experience with monitoring, observability and log analysis tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic or ELK
• Background working within IT Operations, Service Management or mission-critical production environments
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and mitigate operational risks
• Exposure to Chaos Engineering and/or DevOps practices would be highly advantageous

Responsibilities

• Design and execute Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) activities across applications and services
• Validate operational readiness prior to production releases and deployments
• Assess availability, resilience, disaster recovery and service recoverability capabilities
• Test operational processes and procedures, including incident, problem and change management readiness
• Verify backup, restore, deployment, patching and infrastructure connectivity processes
• Evaluate application and infrastructure monitoring, alerting and observability solutions
• Analyse system logs, monitoring outputs and performance data to identify operational risks
• Support release activities and ensure operational acceptance criteria are met
• Work with development, infrastructure and operations teams to resolve supportability and service risks
• Contribute to the testing of AWS-hosted applications and cloud-based services

Technologies

• AWS
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Dynatrace
• ELK
• Support
• Splunk

More

We are looking for an SC Cleared OAT Quality Engineer for one of our local clients. This is a remote, 6 month+ contract paying £398 per day inside IR35. The role focuses on validating operational readiness, resilience, disaster recovery and service supportability across cloud-hosted solutions, working closely with development, infrastructure and service management teams.

last updated 34 week of 2026