Job Description

Cloud Platform Engineer – Hybrid / Farnborough, Initial 6 month contract, Outside IR35, £500-600 per day
SC (UK Sole Nationals only)

Are you an experienced Platform Engineer with strong SRE and DevOps capabilities to join a team delivering secure, cloud-first infrastructure in the defence and security space. This is a hands-on role, owning critical platform components across CI/CD, container orchestration and observability.

Why join?
• Build and run secure platforms for sensitive, high-availability systems
• Autonomy to define and improve key infrastructure and deployment pipelines
• Work alongside highly capable engineers in a focused, outcome-driven team

What you’ll be doing
• Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or similar)
• Configuring Kubernetes clusters for secure, scalable deployments
• Building automation across infrastructure provisioning and testing
• Implementing monitoring and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
• Managing repositories and version control (Git)
• Driving SRE practices around performance, resilience, and supportability
• Working closely with dev teams to integrate platform tooling into workflows
• Supporting infrastructure security, maintainability and scalability initiatives

What we’re looking for
• 5+ years in platform/SRE/DevOps roles
• Strong Kubernetes experience (config and deployment)
• Deep CI/CD experience – Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or similar
• Skilled with infra observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Confident with Git and repo management workflows
• Strong automation mindset – reducing manual intervention wherever possible
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Must be a sole UK national and have current SC

There are long contract opportunities and a large pipeline of work. These are outside IR35 and likely to be office based in Farnborough a max of 1-2 days per week, but mainly on a needs-must basis.