Cloud Platform Engineer - SC Cleared - Outside IR35
Cloud Platform Engineer - SC Cleared - Outside IR35
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Job Description
Cloud Platform Engineer Hybrid / Farnborough Initial 6 month contract Outside IR35 500-600 per day
SC (UK Sole Nationals only)
Are you an experienced Platform Engineer with strong SRE and DevOps capabilities to join a team delivering secure cloud-first infrastructure in the defence and security space. This is a hands-on role owning critical platform components across CI/CD container orchestration and observability.
Why join
Build and run secure platforms for sensitive high-availability systems
Autonomy to define and improve key infrastructure and deployment pipelines
Work alongside highly capable engineers in a focused outcome-driven team
What youll be doing
Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitLab CI/CD or similar)
Configuring Kubernetes clusters for secure scalable deployments
Building automation across infrastructure provisioning and testing
Implementing monitoring and alerting (e.g. Prometheus Grafana)
Managing repositories and version control (Git)
Driving SRE practices around performance resilience and supportability
Working closely with dev teams to integrate platform tooling into workflows
Supporting infrastructure security maintainability and scalability initiatives
What were looking for
5 years in platform/SRE/DevOps roles
Strong Kubernetes experience (config and deployment)
Deep CI/CD experience Jenkins GitLab CI/CD or similar
Skilled with infra observability tooling (Prometheus Grafana etc.)
Confident with Git and repo management workflows
Strong automation mindset reducing manual intervention wherever possible
Cloud experience (AWS Azure or GCP)
Must be a sole UK national and have current SC
There are long contract opportunities and a large pipeline of work. These are outside IR35 and likely to be office based in Farnborough a max of 1-2 days per week but mainly on a needs-must basis.
Employment Type
Full-Time
