Platform Architect: Secure, Scalable Infra & CI/CD

IBM SiXworks; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private medical cover

Life assurance

Pension

Bonus

Professional development

Job summary

SiXworks is seeking a seasoned Platform Architect to define and evolve the strategic direction of our platforms, automation capabilities, and engineering practices. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, platform engineering, and reliability, ensuring secure, scalable solutions that empower development teams to deliver high-quality software.

You will lead platform strategy, drive automation-first initiatives, champion secure-by-design principles, and collaborate across engineering,

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing platform architectures in Agile/DevOps environments.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and automation patterns.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tooling and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Define the platform architecture strategy aligned with business and technology objectives.
• Lead CI/CD and automation framework design and implementation.
• Oversee architecture governance and artefact production (diagrams, standards, reference architectures).
• Mentor Platform Engineers and promote DevOps/SRE practices across teams.
• Collaborate with security, operations, and development teams to ensure secure, scalable platforms.

Skills

Platform architecture

DevOps / SRE

IaC

CI/CD tooling

Cloud & hybrid

Scripting

Security by design

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

ARM

DSC

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

SiXworks is seeking a seasoned Platform Architect to define and evolve the strategic direction of our platforms, automation capabilities, and engineering practices. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, platform engineering, and reliability, ensuring secure, scalable solutions that empower development teams to deliver high-quality software.

You will lead platform strategy, drive automation-first initiatives, champion secure-by-design principles, and collaborate across engineering,