Lead Cloud Platform Engineer – SC Cleared

Searchability NS&D; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible office model

Career progression

Certifications & training

National digital programs

Engineering culture

Flexible benefits & wellbeing

Job summary

Searchability NS&D is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to design and operate secure, scalable cloud platforms for UK public sector projects. You will help build enterprise-scale infrastructure and drive automation across delivery teams.

The role emphasizes leadership within agile teams, Terraform-based infrastructure, and container platforms with Kubernetes and Docker, supported by CI/CD pipelines and strong monitoring practices.

Qualifications

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Strong Linux engineering and scripting experience.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or GitLab.
• Experience supporting large scale production cloud platforms.
• Ability to provide technical leadership within engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Designing and improving cloud infrastructure platforms.
• Building Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Supporting container platforms using Kubernetes and Docker.
• Developing CI/CD pipelines to automate delivery and deployment.
• Improving platform monitoring, reliability and observability.
• Providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers across delivery teams.

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Scripting

Jenkins

GitLab

Job description

Searchability NS&D is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to design and operate secure, scalable cloud platforms for UK public sector projects. You will help build enterprise-scale infrastructure and drive automation across delivery teams.

The role emphasizes leadership within agile teams, Terraform-based infrastructure, and container platforms with Kubernetes and Docker, supported by CI/CD pipelines and strong monitoring practices.