Platform Software Engineer

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Job Description:

Salary Range:

Senior Engineer £45000 - £60000

Principal Engineer £54000 - £70000

Where this vacancy is being recruited across more than one grade, the successful candidate will be appointed to a specific assessed grade, and the applicable salary range will be that associated with the grade of appointment.

Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.

We are a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Leonardo is a leader in Electronics and developing advanced multi-domain technological solutions (Air, Land, Sea, Space and Cyber) for security within and beyond national borders.

As part of our strategic growth initiatives, we are looking for talented and motivated engineers to join our Platform Team, which is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining our core development infrastructure that supports our diverse portfolio of aerospace and defence systems.

Join us on this unique opportunity to be part of a new and innovative team that will shape the future of engineering development within Leonardo.

Your impact

As a Platform Engineer you will help shape, build and operate the infrastructure and services that underpin our engineering platform, from requirements and design through to deployment, support and continuous improvement.

Take ownership of core development tools and infrastructure, including compute, container platforms, application hosting and quality assurance systems. You will provide technical guidance, improve reliability and help engineering teams adopt consistent best practices.

Using technologies such as cloud platforms, container orchestration, infrastructure as code and automation, you will help deliver secure, scalable and resilient services. You will also investigate complex technical issues, improve observability and reduce operational risk and manual effort.

We are a multidisciplinary team looking for candidates with a br...