Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer – DV leading to eDV

Cheltenham – Hybrid

£100,000+ basic salary + bonus + benefits

Platform Engineer required to join a rapidly growing UK technology organisation developing highly secure, scalable and automated platforms for some of the UK's most demanding technical environments. This is a genuinely hands-on engineering role sitting across Platform Engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Infrastructure and Software Delivery. You will be working with modern cloud-native technologies to design, build and maintain resilient platforms, automate infrastructure and deployment processes and help engineering teams deliver software securely and efficiently. The environment is highly technical, fast-moving and low on unnecessary bureaucracy, with the opportunity to work on complex projects where security, performance and reliability genuinely matter.

Package

• £100,000+ basic salary
• Discretionary bonus
• Benefits package
• Hybrid working – Cheltenham
• Training and professional certification opportunities
• Exposure to modern Cloud, Platform Engineering and secure technology environments
• There is flexibility above the advertised salary for particularly strong individuals with the right technical background and clearance.

What you'll be doing

• Designing, building and maintaining secure cloud-native platforms
• Developing automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration and operational workflows
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines
• Implementing Infrastructure-as-Code
• Working extensively with Kubernetes / containerised environments
• Embedding security throughout engineering and software delivery processes
• Supporting modern DevSecOps practices
• Improving platform resilience, scalability and observability
• Working across software engineering, infrastructure and security teams
• Supporting developer platforms and improving the overall developer experience
• Working within highly secure / regulated technical environments

What we're looking for

• Strong experience across several of the following:
• AWS / Cloud Platforms
• Kubernetes
• Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code
• CI/CD
• DevOps / DevSecOps
• Platform Engineering
• Docker / Containers
• Automation / Configuration Management
• Linux
• Cloud-native architecture
• Security tooling / secure software delivery
• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) or developer enablement platforms would be particularly interesting.
• Exposure to tools or concepts including Coder, SAST, DAST, SBOM generation, vulnerability scanning or policy-as-code would also be advantageous.
• AWS certification at Associate level or above would be beneficial but is not essential where the practical experience is strong.
• Experience working within high-security, government, defence, national security or similarly regulated environments would obviously be advantageous.
• Clearance: Due to the nature of the projects, candidates must hold current active eDV security clearance, or at a minimum DV clearance with willingness to undergo eDV.

If you are an experienced Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer / Cloud Engineer with active DV or eDV clearance and would like to work on genuinely complex, cutting-edge secure technology, please apply or contact me directly for further information.

All the best,

Charlie Syrett

Richmond Square Consulting Ltd