At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and implementation of secure platforms in cloud and hybrid environments.
- Company: Join Leonardo, a leader in cyber and platform engineering.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, flexible working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic team environment with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
- Why this job: Tackle complex challenges and make a real difference in defence and public sector services.
- Qualifications: Expertise in platform engineering and experience mentoring engineers.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.
\Are you ready to take on complex technical challenges at the forefront of cyber and platform engineering?
At Leonardo, our Principal Platform Engineers 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 a Principal 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 or more platform engineering domains (e. g. cloud, virtualisation, automation, networking, or cyber tooling) providing specialist domain expertise to projects and programmes.
Lead the design and implementation of secure platforms across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments.
Mentor, coach, and develop junior and senior engineers, raising technical capability across the community.
Provide input to technology strategies, feasibility studies, and innovation projects.
The ability to balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership and mentorship.
- Windows and Linux operating systems
- Cross-domain solutions: design and implementation of data
