Senior Platform Engineer

Skyral; Warminster; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Paid Holiday

Hybrid Working

Flexible Working Hours

Enhanced Parental Leave

Private Medical & Dental Insurance

Healthy Snacks & Drinks Provided

Job summary

Skyral in the United Kingdom is seeking a senior DevOps/SRE engineer to oversee Kubernetes-based platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and reliability across cloud and on-premise environments. You will implement GitOps workflows, monitor systems for resilience, and work with developers and operations teams to keep services running smoothly in a high-velocity setting.

The role is full-time and onsite in Warminster, Wiltshire, with a focus on robust, secure, and scalable deployments that support our mission

Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes-based platforms and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong systems and infrastructure mindset.
• Ability to operate across cloud-native and legacy environments.
• Familiarity with network and security considerations in production.
• Experience in Go or Python development and shell scripting.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure systems on MODCloud / D2S / OpenShift.
• Manage Kubernetes environments, networking and connectivity, and security-focused configurations.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows for repeatable deployments.
• Monitor health, diagnose issues, and resolve deployment failures.
• Collaborate with integration engineers, customers and modeling engineers.
• Support and maintain existing simulation and training systems and virtualization tools.

Skills

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

GitOps

ArgoCD

Go

Python

Shell scripting

SRE mindset

Observability

Incident response

Tools

MODCloud

D2S

OpenShift

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.

MPORTANT – 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.

Note: Please feel empowered to apply for this position, even if you think you may only align with some of the qualities listed above. Your unique skills and perspectives could be just what we’re looking for.

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.