# Lead Platform Engineer

Job Description: Your Impact Do you want to shape the future of secure platforms that underpin the UK’s most critical missions? At Leonardo, our Lead Platform Engineers are recognised experts, providing technical authority and thought leadership across projects and programmes. They define, deliver, and evolve the technical direction of our platforms, ensuring our solutions remain robust, secure, and innovative. Your work at Leonardo UK will see you take the lead in solving customer problems in an agile, innovative and team-centric manner. The role may involve a blended hybrid working model, with a mixture of working from home and working on site at one of our Leonardo offices to ensure close collaboration with the wider team and with our customers. This role is focused on delivering, maintaining, and improving platform and systems engineering solutions that underpin critical defence, government and public sector services. What you will do as a Lead Platform Engineer Act as the technical authority across multiple projects and programmes, ensuring consistency of design and best practice. Define platform architectures and drive technical roadmaps for on-premise, hybrid, and cloud en

- **Id**: 4223671
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/leonardo-lead-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bristol, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T13:33:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5559
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule, Gym membership, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: C4ISR, Defense Manufacturing, Aircraft Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 54177
- **Name**: Leonardo
- **Domain**: leonardo.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/leonardo-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 76
- **Open postings**: 201
- **Ghost share**: 0.005
- **Stale share**: 0.955
- **Repost share**: 0.01
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 28
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no
- **Active Directory** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **PKI** — Optional: yes
- **SIEM** — Optional: yes
- **VMWare** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T06:46:19Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Secondment Worker, Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Secondment Worker; Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T14:33:14Z

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