Senior Platform Engineer in Salisbury

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace Defence and Security sector is currently looking for individuals with a background in platform, infrastructure or DevOps for an exciting new project working within the MOD. You will be on the front line of designing and developing technical solutions that support a key client in the public sector. This role is an excellent platform for experienced individuals looking to hone their Infrastructure and Automation skills in a fast-paced environment working on a truly unique project. You will have technical authority in this role which offers scope to work with industry standard technologies including Public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure and OCI), Automation and IaC tech (Ansible and Terraform) and containerisation. This is a hybrid role based out of our office in Salisbury; you will be in the office 3 days a week on average. Due to the nature of the client, we are only able to progress with candidates eligible and willing to go through the Developed Vetting (DV) clearance process.

What you’ll be doing:

• Research and own new technologies and understand how they can be leveraged in our secure managed service deployments.
• Design and develop complex, secure and highly available platforms to run critical services.
• Understand and operate a DevSecOps approach to drive greater automation and efficiencies.
• Provide 3rd line technical support, mentoring and fault resolution to 1st/2nd line support teams.
• Design new capabilities, develop standards and best practices.
• Take ownership of complex problems and see them through to resolution.

What you’ll bring:

• Production experience working with Broadcom/VMware technologies in highly available enterprise scale environments in a technical leadership role.
• Strong understanding of networks and protocols and network security.
• Hands‑on experience developing and using automation tooling and scripting.
• Experience supporting the design of complex systems and contributing to high quality design documentation.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft and Linux Operating Systems and TCP/IP networking.
• Experience analysing operational data to understand the health of the infrastructure.

It would be great if you had:

• Network technologies (LAN, WAN, Cisco switching, Software defined networking, ForcePoint and Barracuda security products).
• Hybrid and multi‑cloud experience with Azure, AWS or OCI.
• Ansible or Aria automation tooling.
• Container technologies (Kubernetes, Tanzu).

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply; we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full‑time, permanent

Location: Hybrid – 3 days a week spent on site in Salisbury

Security Clearance Level: Eligible and willing to go through the DV clearance process

Salary: Up to £65,000

Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full‑time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.