Overview We are seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join a secure, mission-critical Home Office programme. This role will focus on designing, building, and maintaining secure, scalable platform infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and Kubernetes. You will play a key role in ensuring the platform is reliable, resilient, and capable of supporting modern containerised applications within a highly controlled government environment. The successful candidate will bring strong platform engineering expertise, a security-first mindset, and the ability to help drive modern infrastructure practices across development and operations teams. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain platform infrastructure based on RHEL 9 and Kubernetes Support the deployment and operation of containerised applications across secure environments Automate platform provisioning, configuration, and management using modern DevOps practices Ensure platform security, hardening, and compliance with government security standards Collaborate with software engineers, architects, and security teams to deliver reliable platform services Support the transition of systems into secure production environments Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows Monitor platform performance, reliability, and availability Contribute to infrastructure design decisions and platform architecture Produce and maintain technical documentation and ..... full job details .....