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Cloud Platform Engineer

Farnborough
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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

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