Senior Platform Engineer — Secure On-Prem & Hybrid

Leonardo DRS; Yeovil; Hybrid; GBP 76,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous leave with flexi-days

Pension scheme with employer contrib.

Mental health support

Job summary

Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design, build and support of secure platforms in on‑premise and hybrid environments. You will own engineering delivery for multiple work packages, planning, estimating, and reporting.

Responsibilities include developing architectures, reviewing designs, integrating components, and mentoring Platform Engineers. You will collaborate with stakeholders to meet security and performance needs in a defence‑industry context.

Qualifications

• We are looking for strong technical ability with experience delivering and supporting complex platforms.
• Balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership and mentoring responsibilities.
• Confident taking ownership of solutions and representing engineering in technical discussions.
• Experience with Windows and Linux (RHEL) administration and engineering.
• Experience with virtualised infrastructure (VMware / Hyper‑V) design, build, and support.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build, and support of secure platforms in 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 security and performance requirements are met.
• 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.
• Solve customer problems in an agile, innovative, and team-centric manner.

Skills

Systems engineering

Ownership

Mentoring

Windows OS

Linux OS

Cloud & virtualization

Security compliance

Networking basics

Automation scripting

Active Directory

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Docker

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

Ansible

Bash

PowerShell

Docker

OpenShift

Kubernetes

LDAP

Job description

Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design, build and support of secure platforms in on‑premise and hybrid environments. You will own engineering delivery for multiple work packages, planning, estimating, and reporting.

Responsibilities include developing architectures, reviewing designs, integrating components, and mentoring Platform Engineers. You will collaborate with stakeholders to meet security and performance needs in a defence‑industry context.