- Company Name
- Talent Locker
- Job Title
- Senior Platform Engineer (Outside IR35)
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Senior Platform Engineer
**Role Summary**
Lead the design, deployment, and operation of hybrid cloud/on‑prem platform services supporting defence‑grade systems. Deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions while driving automation, observability, and reliability practices across the organisation.
**Expectations**
- Achieve and maintain high availability and performance of critical workloads.
- Rapidly improve deployment pipelines and operational tooling to increase delivery velocity and consistency.
- Provide expert engineering guidance and mentorship across cross‑functional teams.
- Maintain full compliance with defence security and regulatory standards prior to and during engagement.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Design, build, and maintain platform services on AWS, Azure or GCP within hybrid environments.
- Develop and optimise IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) and automation (Ansible, scripting) for provisioning and configuration.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines (GitOps, ArgoCD, Jenkins, etc.) to enable fast, repeatable releases.
- Enhance observability with tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.) and establish proactive monitoring and alerting.
- Collaborate with reliability and incident‑response teams to investigate incidents, drive post‑mortem analysis, and apply remediation.
- Contribute to architectural governance, technical reviews, and security risk assessments.
- Evaluate emerging technologies (service mesh, serverless, etc.) for platform resilience and capability improvement.
- Conduct knowledge sharing and training sessions to uplift engineering standards and skills.
**Required Skills**
- 5+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure development.
- Proven experience with Kubernetes cluster design, management, and operation.
- Deep knowledge of IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, etc.) and automation frameworks.
- Strong CI/CD pipeline design and implementation skills.
- Expertise in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Solid understanding of security best practices, compliance frameworks, and working in regulated, air‑gapped environments.
- Experience with incident management and complex operational support models.
- Excellent problem‑solving, communication, and collaboration abilities.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Cloud or DevOps certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate).
- Security clearance: SC Level required.
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Farnborough, United kingdom
On site
Senior
04-12-2025