Platform Engineer

Location:

Crawley, United Kingdom Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

Platform Engineer Locations – Crawley, Doncaster (Hybrid Working)
Full-time or Part-time Who are we and what do we do?

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

Thales is continuing to develop its digital platform capabilities, and this role will play an important part in supporting and evolving a dedicated AI platform capability within the UK Digital Competence Centre (Best-In-Class).As an Infrastructure Systems Engineer, you will join an agile platform team responsible for supporting secure, resilient and high-performing on-premise infrastructure services that underpin a business-critical hosted AI solution.

You will help maintain and improve the core infrastructure environment, ensuring services remain available, supportable and secure for internal users and engineering teams.

This is a varied role with a strong operational focus, covering infrastructure support, systems administration, troubleshooting, lifecycle management and service improvement across a mixed technology estate. You will work closely with platform engineers, developers, security specialists and other stakeholders to support reliable service delivery and continuous improvement.

Your career could develop within the DCC as it continues to grow or take you into the wider business as our digital and technical agenda evolves.

Thales is a great place to work where diversity, integrity and a passion for what we do are very important to us. Whether you have worked with platform infrastructure for many years, or have gained relevant experience more recently and are looking to build on it, we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities Support and maintain the infrastructure underpinning an on-premise hosted AI platform, ensuring services remain secure, reliable and available.

Monitor platform health and performance, investigating and resolving issues as part of day-to-day service support.

Carry out routine maintenance and lifecycle activities, including patching, upgrades and scale-out activities.

Work with engineering, security and service teams to support a resilient, supportable and well-governed platform.

Contribute to technical documentation, operational standards and continuous improvement activities.

Infrastructure and platform support

Support the day-to-day operation of the hosted platform across physical server, the virtualisation layer and operating system environments.

Help maintain service availability, performance and capacity through monitoring, troubleshooting and proactive maintenance.

Support containerised services and the underlying infrastructure they rely on.

Maintenance and lifecycle management

Carry out routine maintenance activities including patching, upgrades and health checks.

Support the ongoing management of hardware and software life cycles to keep services secure and supportable.

Maintain clear technical documentation and operational records.

Incident resolution and service improvement

Investigate and resolve infrastructure and platform issues in line with agreed support processes.

Work with internal teams and, where necessary, suppliers to restore service and address recurring problems.

Identify opportunities to improve reliability, supportability and efficiency across the platform.

Experience Required We recruit for roles at many levels so we would be very interested to hear from you regardless of your length of experience.

Experience working with Windows Server operating systems

Experience with Unix-based operating systems, particularly Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Experience with VMware ESXi and/or other hypervisors

Experience supporting containerised environments, particularly Kubernetes Incident and problem management, troubleshooting and working within change management procedures

Good understanding of core networking principles

Ability to demonstrate a good understanding of application and operating system lifecycle management

Experience supporting infrastructure in an enterprise or operational environment

Good understanding of platform and infrastructure support principles

Desirable Skills

Experience with build and CI/CD tools and pipeline (Bit Bucket/ Github)

Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or…