Cloud Platform Engineer

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.