Lead Platform Engineer – Secure Cloud & Hybrid Infra

Leonardo; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

Pension scheme

Wellbeing support

Learning resources

Job summary

Leonardo UK is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to lead the design, integration, and delivery of secure platforms supporting critical defence, government, and public sector services. The role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments at Bristol sites.

You will solve complex customer problems in an agile, team-centric manner, mentoring engineers and shaping secure-by-design architectures.

Qualifications

• Extensive technical expertise across multiple platform domains.
• Hands-on engineering with technical leadership and mentorship.
• Problem-solving mindset for complex challenges.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical authority on one or more platform engineering domains (e.g. cloud, virtualisation, automation, networking, or cyber tooling) providing specialist domain expertise to projects and programmes.
• Lead the design and implementation of secure platforms across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments.
• Capture, analyse, and interpret complex customer requirements to drive system design and architecture.
• Develop high- and low-level designs, ensuring alignment with secure-by-design principles.
• Take ownership of technical delivery within work packages, including planning, estimation, and progress reporting.
• Mentor, coach, and develop junior and senior engineers, raising technical capability across the community.
• Provide input to technology strategies, feasibility studies, and innovation projects.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders, presenting technical solutions and justifying design decisions.

Skills

Platform expertise

Leadership & mentoring

Problem solving

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

Kubernetes

Docker

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Active Directory

PKI

Monitoring

SIEM

CloudFormation

Job description

Leonardo UK is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to lead the design, integration, and delivery of secure platforms supporting critical defence, government, and public sector services. The role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments at Bristol sites.

You will solve complex customer problems in an agile, team-centric manner, mentoring engineers and shaping secure-by-design architectures.