Senior Platform Engineer (eDV)

Senior Platform Engineer

Location: Gloucester or Manchester
Working arrangement: Hybrid – 3 days per week on site
Salary: Competitive

Security clearance: To be able to work in the secure National Infrastructure environments, candidates will need to hold active eDV clearance (enhanced DV).

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join a specialist technology team delivering highly secure solutions within the national security environment.

You'll work alongside experienced software, infrastructure and security professionals, helping to create and maintain the platforms that support complex, business-critical systems.

The role will suit someone who enjoys solving challenging infrastructure problems, automating repetitive processes and working with modern cloud and container technologies. You'll have the opportunity to influence how systems are built, deployed and operated, while working within a collaborative Agile delivery model.

Your Day-to-Day

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing, implementing and maintaining reliable development and infrastructure environments.
• Translating technical and business requirements into practical platform solutions.
• Increasing the level of automation across development, testing and deployment activities.
• Building robust CI/CD processes to support frequent and dependable software releases.
• Helping to identify and resolve complex technical and infrastructure issues.
• Supporting the security, resilience and availability of critical systems.
• Working closely with developers, engineers, customers and other stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Promoting consistent engineering practices across development and operational environments.
• Continuously reviewing existing platforms and processes to identify opportunities for improvement.

Your Technical Background

You should have a solid background in Platform Engineering, DevOps or a closely related discipline, together with experience of several of the following:

• Working within Agile or DevOps teams, ideally using SCRUM.
• Public cloud environments, particularly AWS and/or Azure.
• Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet or Chef.
• Designing and supporting automated software delivery pipelines.
• CI/CD tooling, including technologies such as Jenkins or Concourse, or comparable cloud-based platforms.
• Containers and orchestration, with experience of technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ECS or AKS.
• Automation and scripting.
• Git or other source-control technologies.
• Supporting the deployment and operation of complex or large-scale applications.

Experience of working on secure or highly regulated technology projects would be beneficial, although the key requirement is a strong engineering mindset and the ability to work effectively in a security-focused environment.

Why Join?

Alongside the opportunity to work on technically demanding projects with a genuine national-security impact, the role comes with a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Competitive salary
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Plus eDV clearance bonus
• Employer pension contribution of up to 10.5%
• Life Assurance equivalent to six times your salary
• 25 days' annual leave, increasing with length of service
• Public holidays in addition to annual leave
• Option to purchase or sell up to 5 days of holiday
• Flexible benefits programme with salary-sacrifice options
• Health Cash Plan and Dental benefits
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave

Ready for Your Next Challenge?

If you're a Senior Platform, DevOps or Infrastructure Engineer who wants to apply your skills to complex, security-critical technology projects, this could be an excellent opportunity to take your career to the next level.

Apply today to learn more about the role, technical environment and wider opportunity.