Senior Platform Engineer - Secure, Onsite Leadership

Leonardo; Yeovil; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave with flexi-days

Employer pension contributions up to %

Mental health support services

Access to 4,000+ online courses

Job summary

Leonardo UK seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to operate, maintain and improve secure Windows and Red Hat platforms in highly controlled environments. You will lead operational activities, manage risks, and own incidents and changes with a focus on secure-by-design engineering.

Based at Yeovil, the role requires regular on-site work and collaboration across engineering, security and customer teams. DV clearance is preferred for this critical national security service.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience operating and supporting secure, complex platforms.
• Ability to balance delivery with technical leadership, mentoring and ownership.
• Disciplined service mindset with active issue ownership and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain and improve secure Windows and RHEL platforms in controlled environments.
• Lead operational engineering activities including planning, estimation, execution and risk management.
• Provide technical leadership during incidents, problems and changes with coordinated recovery.

Skills

Windows Server administration

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Scripting: PowerShell

Scripting: Bash

Scripting: Python

Networking: TCP/IP/DNS/DHCP

ITIL incident/change/configuration

Security controls & hardening

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Job description

Leonardo UK seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to operate, maintain and improve secure Windows and Red Hat platforms in highly controlled environments. You will lead operational activities, manage risks, and own incidents and changes with a focus on secure-by-design engineering.

Based at Yeovil, the role requires regular on-site work and collaboration across engineering, security and customer teams. DV clearance is preferred for this critical national security service.