- Salary
- £550 – £700
- Location
- Cheltenham
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Security
- Seniority
- Senior
- Clearance
- Required
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Vincere
Description
Senior Platform Engineer (AWS) | Defence | Contract
£600 to £750 per day | Outside IR35 | Cheltenham (3 days onsite) | Enhanced DV Clearance Required
Before Applying: you will need to have Active Enhanced DV (eDV) clearance. Please do not apply if you do not have ‘enhanced developed vetting’; this is one of the highest levels of security clearance, higher than SC, DBS, BPSS, NPPV3, DV.
An opportunity for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to work on a new multi-cloud platform build from the ground up, supporting critical Defence and National Security programmes.
You'll join a small engineering team, taking ownership of platform design, development and deployment, with AWS as a key technology.
The Role
- Design and build a new multi-cloud platform from the ground up.
- Develop secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Build and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Develop CI/CD pipelines and automate platform deployments.
- Deploy and manage Kubernetes and containerised environments.
- Establish platform engineering standards, security and automation practices.
- Work closely with engineering teams to deliver new platform capabilities.
Key Skills
- Strong AWS Platform Engineering experience.
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Kubernetes and containerisation.
- GitHub and GitHub Actions.
- Linux and Bash scripting.
- CI/CD automation and DevOps practices.
- Experience designing and building cloud platforms.
An excellent opportunity to help shape and build a new secure multi-cloud platform from the ground up.