- Location
- Farnborough, Farnborough
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Vincere
Description
Platform Engineer - Security Cleared - Cheltenham (Hybrid) - Up to £75,000
Are you a Platform Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and building resilient, secure infrastructure?
We're 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. You'll be joining a collaborative engineering team delivering secure, high-impact platforms that support critical national programmes.
The Role
As a Platform Engineer, you'll design, deploy and maintain modern infrastructure across cloud and on-premise environments. Working alongside experienced software and infrastructure engineers, you'll help build scalable, automated platforms while continually improving how services are deployed, monitored and operated.
This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll:
- 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
You'll 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 isn't expected—we're looking for engineers who learn quickly and enjoy solving technical problems.
About You
You'll 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 £75,000
