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.

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.