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Platform Engineer

Preston, GB
Platform Engineer Site Reliability Engineer DevOps Engineer
Actively hiring

Platform Engineer

BAE Systems
Preston, GB
Platform Engineer Site Reliability Engineer DevOps Engineer
BAE Systems
Actively hiring

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Job Title: Platform Engineer

Location: Preston. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Competitive

Job Description:

The role is responsible for maintaining and operating core cluster‑level services, including ingress, networking, and storage integrations, to ensure a stable and scalable platform. It manages multi‑team Kubernetes environments through effective namespace design, RBAC, quotas, and policy enforcement. The position supports GPU‑enabled workloads by operating NVIDIA GPU workers and scheduling components. It also oversees monitoring and logging platform services, driving reliability and operational excellence.

A key focus is defining reusable deployment standards, documentation, and runbooks to streamline service transition and ensure consistent, secure, and efficient operations across teams.

Core Duties:

  • Maintain cluster-level services such as ingress, networking, storage integration
  • Manage namespaces, RBAC, quotas and policy controls for multi-team use
  • Support GPU worker node enablement and scheduling (NVIDIA Operator)
  • Operate monitoring/logging platform services and reliability processes
  • Define reusable deployment standards and runbooks for service transition

Essential skills:

  • You will have experience of Kubernetes/OpenShift/AKS operations,
  • You will have experience of platform governance and capacity planning
  • You have knowledge of the use of key tools such as OpenShift/Kubernetes, Helm, CRI-O, NVIDIA GPU Operator, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki, CSI Storage

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Data team:

This is an opportunity to join a new part of the business, undertaking a new piece of work, introducing new technology into the wider BAE Business. Joining from the ground up, this is a chance to make your mark and the role your own. This role will provide the opportunity to grow the role & your responsibility into a wider scope or even specialise within a specific area.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 6th May 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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