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Senior Platform Engineer (12 month Fixed Term Contract)
National Physical Laboratory · Teddington, ENG, United Kingdom
Teddington, ENG, United KingdomOnsite
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Teddington, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior Platform Engineer role focuses on designing, delivering, and supporting secure infrastructure services, particularly in Linux environments, while emphasizing automation and DevOps practices. Key responsibilities include administering Linux and VMware environments, implementing security measures, and developing automation capabilities using tools like Bash, Ansible, and Terraform.
Qualifications
- Strong experience administering Linux Server environments
- Experience administering, maintaining, and supporting VMware environments
- Strong automation and scripting experience
- Experience designing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting secure, resilient, and highly available systems
- Experience producing technical documentation, operational procedures/runbooks, and implementation plans
- Demonstrable experience in a senior infrastructure, platform engineering, systems administration, or technical consultancy role
Responsibilities
- Administering, maintaining, and securing Linux environments
- Assisting with the administration, maintenance, and optimisation of VMware vCenter and vSAN environments
- Supporting the management and utilisation of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and certificate services
- Designing, implementing, and supporting resilient, highly available infrastructure solutions
- Delivering upgrades, migrations, patching, and lifecycle management activities
- Developing and maintaining automation and orchestration capabilities using scripting and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Supporting enterprise security initiatives
- Producing technical documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks
- Contributing to disaster recovery, business continuity, and redundancy planning
Skills
AnsibleBashKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraformVMwareWindows
Certifications
Linux certificationsSecurity certificationsInfrastructure certificationsAutomation certifications
Travel
Travelling to sites as required to support deployment, implementation, and opera
Contract length
12 months
Security clearance
BPSS security clearanceSC clearance with no restrictions
Relocation
No