uforce - Head of Platform / Senior Platform Manager

United Kingdom | London3w ago

In Office Director EMEA Banking Materials Platform Engineer Senior Community Manager Linux Kubernetes Coaching Terraform RHEL

Requirements

• Proven experience deploying cloud-style infrastructure onto customer-owned, on-premise or bare-metal systems. • Experience designing for air-gapped, disconnected, sovereign or similarly restricted production environments. • Experience leading a substantial high-assurance audit or compliance programme, such as SOC 2 Type 2, PCI DSS, DEFSTAN 05-138 or FedRAMP. • Strong Linux, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation and troubleshooting expertise. • The ability to write code and scripts, configure infrastructure primitives and personally debug complex platform issues. • Experience designing systems that remain supportable when vendor engineers have limited or no access to the customer environment. • Strong technical leadership and the ability to align senior engineers and cross-functional partners. • Experience navigating the technical, security and certification constraints associated with highly regulated deployments. • Experience in defence, government, banking, critical national infrastructure or another highly regulated sector. • Experience designing or operating secure R&D and software-development enclaves. • Familiarity with FIPS 140-3, DEFSTAN 05-138, STANAG, NIST or Cyber Essentials Plus. • Practical knowledge of zero-trust access, bastion or jump-host workflows, immutable logging and automated vulnerability management. • Experience coaching engineers, leading a small team or building a platform function. • Experience working in a start-up, scale-up or urgent operational environment. • TECHNOLOGY STACK

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver secure, repeatable infrastructure for air-gapped, on-premise, customer-hosted and cloud environments. • Build infrastructure-as-code capable of standing up isolated environments reliably on reference hardware. • Provision and operate Kubernetes across cloud and bare-metal infrastructure. • Develop automated configuration, deployment, upgrade and recovery processes. • Create platforms that customers can install, monitor, maintain and troubleshoot independently. • Own core infrastructure foundations across identity, networking, compute, storage, secrets, CI/CD and observability. • Translate security, assurance and accreditation requirements into automated, auditable platform controls. • Establish service ownership, SLOs, incident response, problem management and resilience practices. • Partner with Security, Product and Delivery teams to balance assurance requirements with delivery velocity. • Provide technical leadership, set engineering standards and help grow the platform capability over time. • Kubernetes: K3s, RKE2 and OpenShift • Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Pulumi or comparable IaC tooling • Configuration management: Ansible or equivalent • Linux administration: Ubuntu and RHEL • Bare-metal provisioning: PXE, MAAS, IPMI/Redfish or similar technologies • Container tooling: Docker, containerd and Helm • The nature of combat has changed. • Tomorrow’s battlefield success depends on autonomy, speed, and adaptability. • And UFORCE is ready.