Salary Range: £44,171 - £61,950
Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.
Your Impact
Are you ready to take on complex technical challenges supporting secure cross-domain services that protect national security? At Leonardo, our Senior Platform Engineers operate, maintain and improve secure gateway platforms that enable controlled information flow between security domains and keep our customers’ missions running.
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.
Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Cyber & Security Solutions Division team. This role is focused on operating, maintaining, assuring and improving secure cross-domain gateway services that underpin critical defence, government and public sector operations.
What you will do as a Senior Platform Engineer
Produce and maintain operational documentation, including build records, support guides, runbooks and configuration baselines.
Work with security, service management, engineering and customer stakeholders to ensure cross-domain services remain compliant, available and fit for purpose.
A disciplined service mindset, with the ability to balance hands-on technical support, assurance, documentation and continuous improvement.
This role is based at our Yeovil site.
At Leonardo, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We offer a comprehensive, company-funded benefits package that supports your wellbeing, career development, and work–life balance.
For a full list of our company benefits please visit our website.
Leonardo is a global leader in Aerospace, Defence, and Security. Headquartered in Italy, we employ over 53,000 people worldwide including 8,500 across 9 sites in the UK. Our employees are not just part of a team—they are key contributors to shaping innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety.
At Leonardo we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. We believe that a diverse workforce sparks creativity, drives innovation, and leads to better outcomes for our people and our customers. If you have any accessibility requirements to support you during the recruitment process, just let us know.
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