Hybrid AI Platform Engineer

Thales Group; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Employee discounts

Annual bonus

Job summary

Thales Group in Crawley, UK is seeking a Platform Engineer to support an on‑prem hosted AI platform within the UK Digital Competence Centre. The role is hybrid and involves infrastructure maintenance, incident resolution, and collaboration with platform engineers, security specialists and developers.

You will work across Windows and Linux environments, virtualization, containers (Kubernetes), and CI/CD tools, contributing to documentation and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience with Windows Server and Linux (RHEL) in enterprise settings.
• Proficiency with VMware ESXi or other hypervisors and container platforms.
• Strong understanding of networking and lifecycle management.
• Experience in incident and problem management within change-controlled environments.
• Familiarity with IaC and CI/CD tooling is a plus.
• Security-conscious approach and ability to work with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support on-premises infrastructure underpinning hosted AI platform.
• Monitor health, resolve incidents, perform routine maintenance and upgrades.
• Collaborate with engineering, security and service teams for resilience and governance.
• Contribute to technical documentation and operational standards.
• Support virtualization, containerized services and underlying infrastructure.

Skills

Windows Server

RHEL

VMware ESXi

Kubernetes

Networking fundamentals

Lifecycle management

Incident management

Problem solving

Enterprise infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/IS/Computing

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Bitbucket

GitHub

PowerBI

Active Directory

APIs

Job description

Thales Group in Crawley, UK is seeking a Platform Engineer to support an on‑prem hosted AI platform within the UK Digital Competence Centre. The role is hybrid and involves infrastructure maintenance, incident resolution, and collaboration with platform engineers, security specialists and developers.

You will work across Windows and Linux environments, virtualization, containers (Kubernetes), and CI/CD tools, contributing to documentation and continuous improvement.