Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer – DV leading to eDV

Manchester – 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