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.