Senior Platform Engineer (DV) - Contract - Somerset - £competitive

Synergize Consulting are now hiring for a Senior Platform Engineer to work at a leading defence client on a contract basis.

The successful candidate will work across a number of cyber and security programmes, and will help to shape the design, integration, and delivery of secure platforms that work collaboratively with the customer's infrastructure.

This role is focused on delivering, maintaining, and improving platform and systems engineering solutions that underpin critical defence services.

Responsibilities include:

• Act as the technical authority on one or more platform engineering domains (eg virtualisation) providing specialist domain expertise to projects and programmes.

• Take the lead with the design and implementation of secure platforms across on-premise 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.

Experience required:

• A significant background in infrastructure and platform engineering within a fast paced and complex environment

• Extensive technical expertise across multiple platform domains, with a track record of delivering secure solutions

• A problem-solving mindset, able to innovate and recommend the best approach for complex challenges.

• Key technical skills with Windows and Linux operating systems

• Virtualisation platforms (VMware, Hyper-V)

• VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack (vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T, Aria Suite)

• Network virtualisation and micro-segmentation concepts (NSX, platform-integrated)

• Networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Firewalls)

• Automation and Scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform)

• Knowledge of cyber security controls

• Experience across the systems engineering life cycle

• Integration of compute, storage, and network layers into a unified platform

• Delivery within secure/enterprise/defence environments

• Expertise with cloud platforms (AWS) and Infrastructure as Code would be highly desirable

• Hands-on use of DevSecOps tools and CI/CD pipelines would be desirable

• Containerisation platforms (Kubernetes, Docker)

• Due to the nature of the client, it would be an advantage for candidates to hold, or be eligible and willing to undergo, a certain level of security clearance (DV).

If you are looking to take the next exciting step in your IT career, please send in your CV for immediate consideration