QA Test Infrastructure Engineer - Contract - MOD/Defence Somerset 600 per day Outside IR35 DV Security Clearance RequiredAre you an Infrastructure Test Engineer with strong QA and testing experience across networks, platforms and Infrastructure as Code?This is an opportunity to work on complex Defence and National Security projects, taking responsibility for testing and validating infrastructure before deployment into highly secure production environments.Working alongside Infrastructure Engineers, Architects and DevSecOps specialists, you''ll assure infrastructure across physical, virtualised and cloud environments, ensuring it meets the required standards for functionality, resilience and security.What you''ll doCreate infrastructure-focused test strategies, plans and test cases.Carry out functional, integration, regression, resilience and security testing.Test and validate Infrastructure as Code deployments.Validate physical, virtualised and cloud infrastructure.Provision and verify test environments alongside DevSecOps teams.Build infrastructure validation and readiness testing into CI/CD pipelines.Identify defects, risks and infrastructure issues ahead of production.Support security assurance, compliance and accreditation activities.Maintain appropriate test evidence and traceability.What you''ll needStrong infrastructure knowledge combined with hands-on testing and assurance experience, including:Current, DV Security ClearanceNetworking - TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, ..... full job details .....