Platform Engineer

About Adarga

Adarga is the UK's only sovereign Defence Tech company specialising in applied AI

solutions across intelligence, operations and planning. In an era of information overload,

Adarga delivers technology that enables our mission partners to act with speed, clarity and

confidence. By unlocking the value of their data, we help our partners make better decisions

that achieve mission-critical outcomes.

Our team is a hybrid of domain specialists and technologists. We believe this layering of

experience is key to building cutting edge AI that is operationally relevant, solving real

problems, to drive real outcomes.

This is a unique time to join Adarga. With our foundations set in NLP, computational

linguistics and graph technology we now draw on the latest ideas in generative AI and

knowledge representation, as we set our sights firmly on defining and building the next era of

sovereign AI capability for mission partners across the Defence and National Security

sectors.

To work at Adarga you have to care deeply about the mission. We exist to support those

with the ultimate task: upholding the liberties and values that define our society. In today's

contested, multipolar world, this cannot be taken for granted. We want people who are

comfortable with uncertainty, who want to own decisions, who want to drive a vision.

The Role

Adarga is growing its Platform Engineering team and we're looking for a Platform Engineer

to join us. This is an excellent opportunity for someone early in their platform or DevOps

career who wants to develop their skills in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.

You'll work alongside experienced platform and software engineers, learning modern

DevOps practices used to maintain a containerised microservices architecture. Our product

is cloud native and highly automated – but there's always more to build, improve and

optimise. You'll receive committed mentoring from an experienced team while making a

genuine contribution to production systems that matter.

Your days will be dynamic: a mixture of development, learning, and supporting our product

releases. You'll gain exposure to a wide range of technologies and have a clear path toward

increased responsibility and personal growth.

What You'll Be Doing

• Assist in maintaining and improving our cloud infrastructure and account structure

• Contribute to our Infrastructure as Code codebase, primarily using Terraform

• Support the deployment and operation of containerised applications in Kubernetes

• Help automate infrastructure delivery pipelines and CI/CD workflows

• Assist in monitoring, logging, and observability tasks across our platform

• Support disaster recovery testing and data backup/restore processes

• Work with software engineers and data scientists to understand and support their infrastructure needs

• Learn and apply DevSecOps principles, integrating security into everyday workflows

• Participate in incident response and troubleshooting under guidance from senior engineers

Essential Requirements

• Hands-on Linux systems administration (or equivalent practical experience)

• Practical experience with GCP and AWS services and concepts

• Experience with Kubernetes, ideally GKE, and container fundamentals (Docker/Kubernetes)

• Scripting ability in Bash, Python, or similar for automation tasks

• Strong networking fundamentals (DNS, HTTP/S, TCP/IP, firewalls, load balancing)

• Proficiency with Git and collaborative engineering workflows

• Familiarity with GitOps and declarative configuration management

• Ability to effectively leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate engineering workflows

• Strong problem-solving skills, ownership, and willingness to learn

• Clear communication and effective team collaboration

Desirable Requirements

• Exposure to multi-cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Oracle) and migration patterns

• Experience with Terraform/OpenTofu and Terragrunt

• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tooling (GitHub Actions, Atlantis, Argo CD)

• Experience operating Kubernetes platforms in production (RBAC, ingress, observability)

• Awareness of cloud security and compliance principles (least privilege, CIS, ISO 27001)

• Experience with monitoring/observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Tempo)

• Relevant certification (e.g., Associate Cloud Engineer, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate)

Interview process

• Getting to know you:

In the first call, tell us about you and your story to check a potential fit for Adarga. This is also a chance for you to ask first questions about the role and company.

• Team Interview:

You'll meet with your potential team members who will take a deeper dive into the technical aspects of the role. Expect some high-level technical questions, competency-based questions, and another chance to ask questions.

• Technical Interview:

You'll work with your potential team members on technical questions and challenges. This will be a collaborative session – we're interested in how you think and approach problems, not whether you have all the answers.

• Final Interview:

The last stage! Here we'll gain a better understanding of your experience to date, discuss different projects you've worked on and the impact you've had, and give you an opportunity to meet more of the wider team.

Contact

[email protected]

Find out more about Adarga: https://adarga.ai/careers

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