Job Title – Platform Engineer (SC Cleared)
Contract – Inside IR35
Hybrid – Travel required during initial knowledge transfer
Security Clearance – Must be holding active Security Clearance
We are supporting a large, mission-critical public-sector system and are building a platform engineering team to maintain and evolve a complex legacy technology environment.
This role suits experienced engineers who are comfortable owning systems, providing L3 support, and mentoring others, rather than greenfield delivery.
Key Responsibilities
* Support and maintain legacy applications and infrastructure (L3 support)
* Deliver changes within a complex legacy estate
* Own systems and services as a technical subject matter expert
* Build and support CI/CD pipelines
* Maintain documentation and undertake peer reviews
* Mentor junior engineers and support team delivery
* Stakeholder management, technical decision making, and line management.
Essential Technical Skills
* Legacy systems support and modernisation
* CI/CD pipelines and automation
* Refactoring and automated testing
* ETL and data integration
* Containerisation and virtualisation
Technologies:
* Nginx, Apache HTTP / Tomcat
* Oracle 11, RAC, RMAN, Partitioning, PL/SQL
* Oracle Solaris 10
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
* Windows Server 2008 / 2016 / 2019
* VMware ESX v6
* Docker
* IBM Initiate (MDM)
Desirable Skills
* Elasticsearch
* Java (SE 8, EE 5/6/11, EJB, JSP)
* GIS technologies (OpenLayers, MapServer, Tile Cache)
* Basic Python for legacy system maintenance