Job Description

Posted 4 days ago

Cloud Platform Engineer – Hybrid / Farnborough, Circa £80k + bonus + excellent benefits
SC Eligible (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 you'll 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 we're 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 eligible for SC clearance

There are fantastic benefits including Private medical, bonus, and a whole suite of corporate benefits. There are plenty of career development opportunities and growth potential