Platform Engineer
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Farnborough - UK
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Job Summary
Job Description
Platform Engineer - Security Cleared - Cheltenham (Hybrid) - Up to 75000
Are you a Platform Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and building resilient secure infrastructure
Were looking for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments enjoys experimenting with new technologies and wants to work on projects where reliability automation and operational excellence are essential. Youll be joining a collaborative engineering team delivering secure high-impact platforms that support critical national programmes.
The Role
As a Platform Engineer youll design deploy and maintain modern infrastructure across cloud and on-premise environments. Working alongside experienced software and infrastructure engineers youll help build scalable automated platforms while continually improving how services are deployed monitored and operated.
This is a hands-on engineering role where youll:
- Build and improve secure automated platform infrastructure
- Deploy solutions into complex production environments
- Improve CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Work closely with developers to streamline software delivery
- Troubleshoot production issues and optimise platform performance
- Contribute ideas challenge existing approaches and help shape engineering best practice
Technology
Youll have the opportunity to work with modern DevOps and platform technologies including:
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- GitHub & GitHub Actions
- Helm
- AWS
- VMware
- Bash
- Go and/or Rust
Experience with every technology isnt expectedwere looking for engineers who learn quickly and enjoy solving technical problems.
About You
Youll likely have experience in several of the following:
- Supporting and operating production platforms
- Infrastructure as Code and automation
- Containerisation and Kubernetes
- Cloud infrastructure ideally AWS
- CI/CD tooling and deployment pipelines
- Linux administration
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
Due to the nature of the work applicants must have existing Security Clearance.
Platform Engineer - Security Cleared - Cheltenham (Hybrid) - Up to 75000
Required Experience:
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About Company
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