Senior Platform Engineer – Secure, Scalable Infra (Onsite)

Thorn SDS; Hereford; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days’ annual leave + Bank Holidays

Employer pension contributions

Group Life Insurance

Health Cashback Plan

Wellbeing services including GP access

Cycle to Work Scheme

Funded training & certifications

Nationally significant programmes with

Job summary

Thorn SDS is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build and run secure, scalable platform services from a secure site in Hereford. You’ll work with modern cloud, containerisation and automation technologies on projects where reliability, security and innovation are essential.

This role is fully onsite due to the secure environment and offers the opportunity to work on systems that cannot be accessed remotely, collaborating with DevOps, software engineering and cybersecurity colleagues

Qualifications

• Experienced platform engineer with a focus on secure, scalable infrastructure.
• Proven ability to design, build and operate automated platform environments.
• Familiarity with defence or enterprise security standards is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building secure, automated and scalable platform environments.
• Managing infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, Ansible or Pulumi.
• Creating and improving CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps.
• Working closely with software engineering teams to deliver reliable deployment environments.
• Deploying and supporting Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker and other container technologies.
• Monitoring platform health, performance and security using Prometheus, Grafana and ELK.
• Ensuring infrastructure complies with defence and security standards.
• Contributing to platform hardening, threat modelling and incident response activities.
• Supporting migration of legacy systems into modern, secure platforms.

Skills

Platform Engineer

Linux administration

Bash/Python scripting

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes/OpenShift/Docker

CI/CD tooling

Security standards

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Pulumi

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Job description

Thorn SDS is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build and run secure, scalable platform services from a secure site in Hereford. You’ll work with modern cloud, containerisation and automation technologies on projects where reliability, security and innovation are essential.

This role is fully onsite due to the secure environment and offers the opportunity to work on systems that cannot be accessed remotely, collaborating with DevOps, software engineering and cybersecurity colleagues