Senior Platform Automation Engineer
Stoke on Trent Office, office-based role – candidates must be security cleared or able to obtain clearance.
Role Overview
Senior Platform Automation Engineer who reduces manual infrastructure build and configuration, improves consistency and reliability, and enables rapid, auditable deployments that meet extensive security and assurance standards.
Working within secure, predominantly on‑premise and private cloud platforms, this role provides hands‑on engineering expertise while promoting automation best practices, supporting platform resilience, and enabling delivery teams to consume infrastructure safely and efficiently.
Responsibilities
- Reduce manual infrastructure build and configuration.
- Improve consistency and reliability of all environments.
- Enable rapid, auditable deployments that meet extensive security and assurance standards.
- Support platform resilience and scalability.
- Enable delivery teams to consume infrastructure safely and efficiently.
Qualifications
- Significant hands‑on experience designing, building, and operating on‑premise infrastructure platforms within enterprise or highly regulated environments.
- Proven experience delivering Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate provisioning and lifecycle management of infrastructure.
- Demonstrable experience working in security‑constrained or regulated environments.
- Strong experience with Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure, including cluster design, operation, and automation.
- Experience supporting or automating Citrix platforms (e.g., virtual apps and desktops) within secure enterprise environments.
- Solid understanding of traditional data‑centre technologies including compute, storage, networking, and identity services.
- Hands‑on experience building, configuring, and automating SQL Server platforms.
- Experience supporting multi‑tier enterprise applications hosted on on‑premise infrastructure.
- Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for the automated provisioning and lifecycle management of on‑premise CWEs.
- Strong practical experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell DSC, or equivalent.
- Proven ability to create reusable, version‑controlled automation artefacts.
- Experience integrating infrastructure automation into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience embedding security controls, identity integration, access models, and configuration hardening into automated builds.
- Must be able to gain security clearance and Disclosure Verification (DV).
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