Platform Engineer - Kubernetes & SRE for Critical Systems

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

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.