Platform Engineer

Skyral Group; Warminster; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Paid Holiday

Hybrid Working

Flexible Working Hours

Enhanced Parental Leave

Private Medical & Dental Insurance

Honest about Compensation

Healthy Snacks & Drinks Provided

Job summary

Skyral, based onsite in Warminster, seeks a skilled Site Reliability/Platform Engineer to deploy and manage cloud-native and legacy simulation environments. You will configure MODCloud, D2S and OpenShift, ensuring security-aligned setups and reliable operations across distributed systems.

We value strong SRE practices, observability, and collaboration with engineers and modelling teams. The role requires five days on site per week in Warminster.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying and configuring systems on MODCloud, D2S and OpenShift.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems in production.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines with automated deployment workflows.
• Familiarity with GitOps approaches and tools such as ArgoCD.
• Go or Python development and shell scripting.
• Ability to diagnose issues across infrastructure, networking and application layers.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure systems on MODCloud / D2S / OpenShift.
• Manage Kubernetes environments, networking and connectivity, plus security-aligned configurations.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and environment configurations to ensure repeatable 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 deployment and virtualization tools.
• Apply SRE practices to improve system reliability, including observability, incident response and root cause analysis.

Skills

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Go

Python

Shell scripting

GitOps

ArgoCD

Tools

MODCloud

OpenShift

D2S

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.

Important – Please read before applying

This role is based full-time onsite in Warminster, Wiltshire. You will be required to work from the Warminster site five days per week. This is not a hybrid or remote role, and we cannot accommodate candidates who are only able to attend the site for part of the working week.

Security Clearance (SC) is a mandatory requirement for this role. To be considered, you must have been resident in the UK for the last five years and be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance. If you do not meet this residency requirement, we will not be able to progress your application.

Please only apply if you meet both of these requirements: five days per week onsite in Warminster, Wiltshire, and five years’ UK residency 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.

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.

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.