Platform Engineer
2 days ago
Cheltenham
Platform Engineer – DV leading to eDV \n Cheltenham – Hybrid \n £100,000+ basic salary + bonus + benefits \n \n 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. \n \n Package \n\n • £100,000+ basic salary\n, • Discretionary bonus\n, • Benefits package\n, • Hybrid working – Cheltenham\n, • Training and professional certification opportunities\n, • Exposure to modern Cloud, Platform Engineering and secure technology environments\n, • There is flexibility above the advertised salary for particularly strong individuals with the right technical background and clearance.\n\n \n What you'll be doing \n\n • Designing, building and maintaining secure cloud-native platforms\n, • Developing automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration and operational workflows\n, • Building and improving CI/CD pipelines\n, • Implementing Infrastructure-as-Code\n, • Working extensively with Kubernetes / containerised environments\n, • Embedding security throughout engineering and software delivery processes\n, • Supporting modern DevSecOps practices\n, • Improving platform resilience, scalability and observability\n, • Working across software engineering, infrastructure and security teams\n, • Supporting developer platforms and improving the overall developer experience\n, • Working within highly secure / regulated technical environments\n\n \n What we're looking for \n\n • Strong experience across several of the following:\n, • AWS / Cloud Platforms\n, • Kubernetes\n, • Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code\n, • CI/CD\n, • DevOps / DevSecOps\n, • Platform Engineering\n, • Docker / Containers\n, • Automation / Configuration Management\n, • Linux\n, • Cloud-native architecture\n, • Security tooling / secure software delivery\n, • Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) or developer enablement platforms would be particularly interesting.\n, • Exposure to tools or concepts including Coder, SAST, DAST, SBOM generation, vulnerability scanning or policy-as-code would also be advantageous.\n, • AWS certification at Associate level or above would be beneficial but is not essential where the practical experience is strong.\n, • Experience working within high-security, government, defence, national security or similarly regulated environments would obviously be advantageous.\n, • 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.\n\n \n 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. \n \n \n \n All the best, \n \n Charlie Syrett \n Richmond Square Consulting Ltd \n