Platform Engineer

BAE Systems

📍 Preston, England, United-Kingdom

Full-time IT & Technology Posted February 26, 2026

Job Description

Job Title: Platform Engineer

Location: Preston. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Circa £50k depending on skills and experience

What you'll be doing:

  • Maintain cluster-level services such as ingress, networking, storage integration
  • Manage namespaces, RBAC, quotas and policy controls for multi-team use
  • Support GPU worker node enablement and scheduling (NVIDIA Operator)
  • Operate monitoring/logging platform services and reliability processes
  • Define reusable deployment standards and runbooks for service transition

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

  • Experience of Kubernetes/OpenShift/AKS operations,
  • Experience of platform governance and capacity planning
  • Use of key tools such as OpenShift/Kubernetes, Helm, CRI-O...