Platform Engineer

Salary: £61,000–£83,000

Location: Hybrid/London or Cheltenham

Clearance: SC or higher

We are looking for an SC-Cleared Platform Engineer to join a growing, values-led technology consultancy delivering secure, scalable and mission-critical digital solutions across the UK public sector

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You will work closely with clients and multidisciplinary delivery teams to design, build and operate modern platform and infrastructure solutions across cloud and on-premise environments. This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, improving developer experience, and embedding security, reliability and automation into everything they deliver.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and implement secure, reliable and scalable platform solutions across cloud and on-premise environments
• Act as a trusted technical advisor, understanding client needs, business objectives and operational constraints.
• Lead or contribute to the architecture of robust systems, embedding network and cyber security best practice.
• Work with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, assess feasibility and recommend pragmatic technical solutions.
• Build and improve internal developer platforms with a focus on reliability, adoption and user experience.
• Collaborate with project managers and delivery teams to support successful delivery against agreed timelines and budgets.
• Keep up to date with emerging platform, cloud and DevOps technologies, sharing knowledge across teams.
• Support technical discussions, presentations and client engagements, clearly articulating platform approaches and value.

Required skills

• 5+ years’ experience in a Platform, DevOps, Cloud or Site Reliability Engineering role.
• Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Production experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation or Bicep.
• Experience designing, operating and evolving cloud and on-premise solutions in production environments.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, including VPCs, security groups, NAT gateways, VPNs and hybrid connectivity.
• Experience working in Unix/Linux environments.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, software engineering principles and deployment automation.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of observability, including logging, monitoring, alerting and operational dashboards.
• Strong communication, problem-solving and stakeholder engagement skills.

Benefits

• 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays.
• Up to 5 days’ annual training leave and a dedicated annual training budget.
• Up to 3 days’ annual volunteering leave.
• Comprehensive private health insurance and 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
• 5% pension contribution, plus discretionary company awards and bonuses.
• Annual professional membership, additional IT budget for new joiners, referral scheme and regular social events.