# Principal Platform Engineer

What You'll Do As a Principal Platform Engineer, you will help set the technical direction for the platform one of our engineering teams builds on: the infrastructure, tooling, and automation that let us run GPU clusters, Kubernetes, and our managed services reliably at scale. You'll partner closely with software engineers, SRE, Infra Ops, and the other platform engineers across Radiant. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on making the platform reliable, secure, and easy to build on, through architecture, code, and the standards other teams build on. The teams Infra: the platform behind provisioning and cluster management Network: the platform behind our fabrics and Managed Networks Cloud: the platform behind our Virtual Machines and console Observability: the platform behind FlightDeck MLOps: the platform behind training and inference Key Responsibilities Set the platform architecture and roadmap for your team, and lead its design and implementation. Lead infrastructure-as-code, automation, and deployment at scale. Make environments reproducible, secure, and fast to change. Own the reliability and operability of the platform, with SRE and Infra Ops. Defi

- **Id**: 3988035
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/radiant-principal-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Gloucester, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T20:01:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T22:19:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5333
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: MLOps, AI Compute & Inference

## Company

- **Id**: 8822
- **Name**: Radiant
- **Domain**: radiant.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/radiant>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.667
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 49
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T22:19:01Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 49
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T23:52:46Z

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