Platform Engineer

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 RustExperience 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 skillsDue to the nature of the work, applicants must have existing Security Clearance.

Platform Engineer - Security Cleared - Cheltenham (Hybrid) - Up to £75,000