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Senior Platform Engineer
Thorn SDS · Hereford, ENG, United Kingdom
Hereford, ENG, United Kingdom65,000-75,000 GBP/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
65,000-75,000 GBP/yearly
Location
Hereford, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
Job summary
Thorn SDS is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and support secure platform services for critical defense and national security applications.
Qualifications
- Experienced Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer
- Experience with Linux and/or Windows administration
- Scripting and automation using Bash, Python or PowerShell
- Cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, MODCloud or private cloud environments
- Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker and modern container platforms
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tooling
- Understanding of secure platform engineering and defence or enterprise security standards
- Familiarity with Agile delivery environments
Responsibilities
- Design and build secure, automated and scalable platform environments
- Manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
- Create and improve CI/CD pipelines
- Work closely with software engineering teams to deliver reliable deployment environments
- Deploy and support Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker and other container technologies
- Monitor platform health, performance and security
- Ensure infrastructure complies with defence and security standards
- Contribute to platform hardening, threat modelling and incident response activities
- Support migration of legacy systems into modern, secure platforms
Skills
AnsibleAWSAzureAzure DevOpsBashDockerGitLabGitLab CIGrafanaIstioJenkinsKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPowerShellPrometheusPulumiPythonTerraformVaultWindows
Certifications
CKACKADAWS/Azure DevOps EngineerCISSPSecurity+
Security clearance
High level of UK National Security Clearance
Relocation
No