hackajob is partnering directly with Leonardo to hire for this role. Job Description: Salary Range: £53,269 - £71,400 Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity. Your Impact Are you ready to take on complex technical challenges at the forefront of cyber and platform engineering? At Leonardo, our Principal Platform Engineers (Technical Specialist Path) are hands-on experts who shape the design, integration, and delivery of secure platforms that keep our customers' missions running. Your work at Leonardo UK will see you take the lead in solving customer problems in an agile, innovative and team-centric manner. The role may involve a blended hybrid working model, with a mixture of working from home and working on site at one of our Leonardo offices to ensure close collaboration with the wider team and with our customers. Leonardo UK is seeking aPrincipal Platform Engineer to join the Cyber & Security Solutions Division team. This role is focused on delivering, maintaining, and improving platform and systems engineering solutions that underpin critical defence, government and public sector services. What you will do as a Principal Platform Engineer Act as the technical authority on one of our platform engineering domains (e.g. virtualisation) providing specialist domain expertise to projects and programmes.
Lead the design and implementation of secure platforms across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments.
Capture, analyse, and interpret complex customer requirements to drive system design and architecture.
Develop high- and low-level designs, ensuring alignment with secure-by-design principles.
Take ownership of technical delivery within work packages, including planning, estimation, and progress reporting.
Mentor, coach, and develop junior and senior engineers, raising technical capability across the community.
Provide input to technology strategies, feasibility studies, and innovation projects.
Engage with internal and external stakeholders, presenting technical solutions and justifying design decisions.
What you'll bring
Extensive technical expertise across multiple platform domains, with a track record of delivering secure solutions.
The ability to balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership and mentorship.
A problem-solving mindset, able to innovate and recommend the best approach for complex challenges.
Core areas (must have):
Windows and Linux operating systems
Virtualisation platforms (VMware, Hyper-V)
Privileged Access Management concepts and implementation (CyberArk or similar)
Secure credential storage, rotation, and access control models
Integration of PAM into enterprise platforms and services
Networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, firewalls)
Automation and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform)
Knowledge of cyber security controls and accreditation requirements
Experience across the systems engineering lifecycle
Design and implementation of privileged access models across complex systems
Delivery within highly controlled / secure environments (e.g. air-gapped, defence)
Desirable:
Expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and Infrastructure as Code
Experience integrating enterprise services (Active Directory, PKI, monitoring, SIEM)
Hands-on use of DevSecOps tools and CI/CD pipelines
Automation of
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