Senior Platform Engineer - Secure On-Site Operations

Devopsroles; Yeovil; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

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Tailored Perks

Flexible Working

Job summary

Leonardo UK is recruiting a Platform Engineer to operate, maintain and improve secure platforms in highly controlled environments. The role requires regular on-site attendance at the Yeovil site and close collaboration with senior engineers, service management, security and customer teams.

You will deliver deployments, monitoring, patching, backups and service enhancements, while contributing to incident handling and root-cause analysis. DV clearance is required prior to starting.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering Windows Server and Red Hat Linux in controlled environments.
• Experience with enterprise virtualization technologies (VMware/Hyper-V).
• Fundamental networking knowledge: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, firewalls.
• Experience supporting infrastructure in secure, regulated environments.
• Familiarity with ITIL-based incident, problem and change management.
• Understanding of cyber security controls and system hardening.
• Ability to create and maintain technical documentation and runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain and support secure Windows and Linux platforms in controlled environments.
• Execute deployments, configuration changes, monitoring, patching and backups.
• Assist in incident, problem and change activities and contribute to RCAs.
• Maintain secure configurations, baselines and runbooks.
• Troubleshoot platform, network and service issues; escalate as needed.
• Contribute to low-level designs, implementation plans and testing.
• Support readiness and transition to business-as-usual operations.
• Drive automation and reusable engineering patterns to improve support processes.
• Share knowledge and contribute to broader team capability.

Skills

Windows Server

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

VMware/Hyper-V

Networking basics

ITIL incident/change

Cyber security controls

Technical documentation

Education

Degree in IT/Computing

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Leonardo UK is recruiting a Platform Engineer to operate, maintain and improve secure platforms in highly controlled environments. The role requires regular on-site attendance at the Yeovil site and close collaboration with senior engineers, service management, security and customer teams.

You will deliver deployments, monitoring, patching, backups and service enhancements, while contributing to incident handling and root-cause analysis. DV clearance is required prior to starting.