Lead Platform Engineer - Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD (SC)

Searchability NS&D; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £100,000

Office & client travel

Career progression

Certifications & training

National digital projects

Strong engineering culture

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Searchability NS&D in the United Kingdom seeks a Lead Platform Engineer to design and build secure, scalable cloud platforms for major UK public sector programmes. You will lead agile teams, mentor engineers, and help deliver enterprise-scale infrastructure with IaC and CI/CD.

The role requires SC clearance or eligibility, strong Linux skills, and hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and Docker in cloud environments.

Qualifications

• SC cleared or eligible to obtain SC clearance.
• Experience designing and delivering cloud platforms for the public sector.
• Strong Linux engineering and scripting experience.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab or similar tools.
• Ability to provide technical leadership within delivery 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.

Skills

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux scripting

CI/CD

Jenkins

GitLab

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Jenkins

GitLab

Job description

Searchability NS&D in the United Kingdom seeks a Lead Platform Engineer to design and build secure, scalable cloud platforms for major UK public sector programmes. You will lead agile teams, mentor engineers, and help deliver enterprise-scale infrastructure with IaC and CI/CD.

The role requires SC clearance or eligibility, strong Linux skills, and hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and Docker in cloud environments.