Infrastructure Platform Engineer - DV Cleared

Location: Taunton
Rate: -550630 per day
Contract: Initial 7-month contract (potential for extension)
Clearance: Active DV Clearance Required

Inside IR35

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Platform Engineer to support the ongoing operation, maintenance and development of a secure private cloud platform within a highly sensitive environment.

This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on engineer with strong infrastructure, virtualisation and security experience to take ownership of day-to-day platform operations, improve service performance and support the onboarding of new customers.

The successful candidate will be proactive, technically capable and confident making engineering decisions with minimal supervision.

• Monitor platform performance, investigate incidents and identify opportunities to prevent recurring issues.

• Maintain and improve platform reliability, availability and resilience.

• Manage infrastructure patching, security hardening and vulnerability remediation.

• Implement and maintain access controls, identity management and security configurations.

• Support infrastructure automation and configuration management using version control.

• Develop and maintain operational dashboards, alerts and service health reporting.

• Support customer onboarding and ongoing platform development.

• Contribute to service improvement and operational recovery processes.

• Strong networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, DHCP, firewalls and load balancing.

• Virtualisation experience with VMware, Hyper-V or equivalent technologies.

• Administration of both Linux and Windows operating systems.

• Understanding of infrastructure security, including IAM, RBAC, security hardening, vulnerability scanning and patch management.

• Scripting experience using PowerShell and/or Bash.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work independently and make sound technical decisions.

• Experience working within Agile or DevOps environments.

• Broader systems administration experience.

• Previous experience supporting secure or Defence-related infrastructure environments.

Candidates must hold active, transferable UK DV Security Clearance and be eligible to work on highly secure government projects.