Details:
- Salary: £60,000 - 75,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Cheltenham Gloucestershire
- Date: 1 day ago
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 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