Platform Engineer

Skyral; Warminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Paid Holiday

Hybrid Working

Flexible Working Hours

Enhanced Parental Leave

Private Medical & Dental Insurance

Salary Transparency

Snacks & Drinks Provided

Job summary

Skyral is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to deploy and manage cloud-native systems (MODCloud/OpenShift) across environments. You’ll build CI/CD pipelines, monitor health, and resolve deployment issues in collaboration with engineering and modelling teams.

Candidates should be proficient with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and GitOps (ArgoCD), adopting a strong reliability and observability mindset. Onsite in Warminster, UK, with SC clearance eligibility.

Qualifications

• Strong systems mindset.
• Calm under pressure during outages or failures.
• Experience with cloud-native environments (MODCloud/OpenShift).
• Eligibility for UK SC clearance.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure systems on MODCloud / D2S / OpenShift.
• Manage Kubernetes environments, networking and connectivity, and security-aligned configurations.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and environment configurations to ensure repeatable and reliable deployments.
• Support running systems by monitoring health, diagnosing platform and infrastructure issues and resolving deployment failures.
• Work closely with integration engineers, customers and modelling engineers.
• Support and maintain existing simulation and training systems, as well as existing deployment and virtualisation tools.
• Apply SRE practices to improve system reliability, including observability (metrics, logs, tracing), incident response, and root cause analysis.

Skills

Go

Python

SRE mindset

Collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

OpenShift

GitOps (ArgoCD)

Job description

We Are Skyral:

We believe every decision maker can be empowered by technology. Skyral combines AI, leading edge simulation technology and world class expertise to transform the decision making experience. Our products and services enable faster and more confident decisions in a complex, unforgiving world. We deploy practical, intuitive and efficient solutions to governments and enterprises, delivering outstanding outcomes at the speed of relevance.

At Omnia Training, we’ve brought together some of the UK’s most innovative defence training organisations under one powerful mission: to transform the British Army’s training system and create the best-trained Army in the world.

Omnia Training is redefining the British Army’s collective training. To do that, we are looking for the best and brightest minds from across the UK. Omnia Training is at the heart of the UK’s bold Land Industrial Strategy.

This is more than a job — it’s a mission. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering Omnia Training’s vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training.

Please note that this role will require onsite working in Warminster. Due to the nature of this role, Skyral can only consider applications from candidates who live in the UK and are eligible for SC clearance.

What You’ll Be Responsible For:

• Deploy and configure systems on MODCloud / D2S / OpenShift
• Manage Kubernetes environments, networking and connectivity, as well as security-aligned configurations.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and environment configurations to ensure repeatable and reliable deployments.
• Support running systems by monitoring health, diagnosing platform and infrastructure issues and resolving deployment failures.
• Work closely with integration engineers, customers and modelling engineers.
• Support and maintain existing simulation and training systems, as well as existing deployment and virtualisation tools.
• Apply SRE practices to improve system reliability, including observability (metrics, logs, tracing), incident response, and root cause analysis.

What We Are Looking For:

This is not a pure cloud or greenfield platform role. You will be working across cloud-native services, legacy systems, and integrated simulation environments, ensuring they operate reliably as a single platform.

Strong systems and infrastructure mindset

• Comfortable working across modern and legacy environments
• Calm under pressure during outages or failures
• Pragmatic and delivery-focused, with a bias toward keeping systems running.
• Strong collaborator across engineering disciplines
• Adopts an SRE mindset, focusing on reliability, observability, and continuous improvement of running systems.

Key Technical Proficiencies:

• Expert working knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, Teraform, Ansible, and Docker.
• Understanding of Distributed Systems in production.
• Experience working within constrained or regulated environments (e.g. MODCloud, D2S, OpenShift) and adapting to their tooling and limitations.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines with automated deployment workflows.
• Familiarity with GitOps approaches and tools such as ArgoCD.
• Strong understanding of Network fundamentals, Zero Trust solutions, service to service communications and distributed system connectivity.
• Ability to diagnose issues across infrastructure, networking, and application layers.
• Experience supporting or integrating legacy and non-cloud-native systems alongside modern infrastructure.
• Experience in developing with Go or Python as well as shell scripting.
• Experience applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices such as monitoring, alerting, incident response, and service reliability improvement.

What We Can Offer You:

• Unlimited Paid Holiday - we value and support the need to maintain a strong work-life balance.
• Hybrid Working - we understand that a one-size-fits all approach doesn’t suit everyone.
• Flexible Working Hours - We’re not bound by the 9-to-5 model. Collaborate with your manager on determining a work schedule that suits you.
• Enhanced Parental Leave - we’re proud to offer 26 weeks maternity leave and 4 weeks paternity leave at full pay.
• Private Medical & Dental Insurance - offered through Bupa.
• Honest about Compensation - We maintain a well defined salary range which a member of the Talent Team will discuss with you during the first call.
• Healthy Snacks & Drinks Provided - If you decide to come into the office, we have a range of snacks and drinks for you to enjoy.

At Skyral, we are committed to fostering a culture of diversity, equality and inclusion. We also ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to reasonable adjustments. If you require such accommodations during the job application process we ask that you inform a member of our Talent Team.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.