Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

Location: UK – Hybrid / Remote

Travel: Occasional travel to Northwood and Corsham

Clearance: Active SC Clearance required

Type: Permanent

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join a growing Defence Technology organisation developing secure, mission-critical platforms for UK Government and Defence customers.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based platforms, including deployment into highly restricted and classified environments.

You will work across Cloud, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps and Platform Engineering, helping to build secure CI/CD pipelines, integrate security and observability tooling, and support the delivery of modern cloud-native services.

The successful candidate will be comfortable working in technically complex environments and collaborating with engineers, security teams and UK Government/Defence stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and/or GCP.
• Design, deploy and support Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Support platform deployments across connected, disconnected and classified environments.
• Develop and maintain secure CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines.
• Build Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi and/or equivalent technologies such as Terraform.
• Develop, debug and maintain cloud-native services and microservices, including Go-based services.
• Integrate SIEM, security, monitoring and observability tooling.
• Support platform security, compliance and operational resilience.
• Collaborate with engineering, security and product teams to deliver technical solutions.
• Work with UK Government and Defence stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver secure platforms.
• Contribute to technical architecture, engineering standards and DevSecOps strategy.
• Research and implement new technologies to solve challenges associated with secure and disconnected environments.
• Produce clear technical documentation and architectural guidance.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 5–7+ years' experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure or Systems Engineering.
• Strong experience designing and implementing cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally with Pulumi.
• Experience developing secure CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines.
• Strong understanding of cloud security and secure infrastructure design.
• Experience with monitoring, observability and/or SIEM platforms.
• Experience with Go, Rust or another modern programming language.
• Understanding of REST APIs, microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Strong Linux and cloud-native engineering experience.
• Excellent communication and technical documentation skills.
• Experience working with Government, Defence, national security or other highly regulated environments.
• Active UK SC Clearance.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working in air-gapped, disconnected or classified environments.
• UK Defence or national security experience.
• Knowledge of MOD Secure by Design, JSP 453, NCSC Cloud Security Principles or NIST 800-53.
• AWS, Azure or GCP Solutions Architect certification.
• Experience within a start-up or high-growth technology environment.
• Experience with GitLab, Google Workspace and Slack.
• Familiarity with accreditation, risk management and security assurance processes.
• Experience using AI development tools such as Claude or Gemini.

The Opportunity

This is an opportunity to work on high-impact Defence technology, helping to build secure cloud platforms capable of operating in some of the UK's most demanding environments.

You will have the opportunity to work across modern cloud-native technologies while contributing to the architecture and evolution of secure platforms supporting UK Government and Defence missions.

If you are an experienced Platform, Cloud or DevOps Engineer with strong Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure experience, and you hold active SC Clearance, we'd be keen to hear from you.