Senior Platform Engineer – Hybrid VMware Cloud Foundation

Leonardo; Yeovil; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous leave

Pension scheme

Mental health support

Free online courses

Flexible benefits

Hybrid working

Job summary

Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design, delivery and support of secure platforms for defence and government contexts from Yeovil. You will blend hands-on engineering with technical leadership to drive high-impact initiatives.

This role offers hybrid working with onsite collaboration and opportunities to mentor engineers while shaping enterprise-grade solutions that meet security and performance requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering and supporting complex platforms in secure/enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build, and support of secure platforms on-premise and hybrid environments.
• Take ownership of engineering delivery for one or more work packages, including planning, estimation, execution, and reporting.
• Develop and review system architectures, low-level designs, and technical documentation.
• Integrate and test platform components, ensuring compliance with security and performance requirements.
• Provide mentoring, guidance, and technical leadership to Platform Engineers and Technicians.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, project teams, and customers to ensure solutions meet requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and contribute to internal engineering standards.

Skills

Windows and Linux OS

Virtualisation

VCF Stack

Software-defined data centre

Networking concepts

Automation scripting

Cyber security controls

Systems engineering lifecycle

Secure/enterprise environments

Defence sector experience

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

NSX-T

Aria Suite

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design, delivery and support of secure platforms for defence and government contexts from Yeovil. You will blend hands-on engineering with technical leadership to drive high-impact initiatives.

This role offers hybrid working with onsite collaboration and opportunities to mentor engineers while shaping enterprise-grade solutions that meet security and performance requirements.