Cloud & Platform Engineering Lead
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Description
Date Posted:
2026-02-27
Country:
United Kingdom
Location:
Warminster, Wiltshire
Position Role Type:
Unspecified
Cloud & Platform Engineering Lead
Warminster based, hybrid working
Be at the forefront of transforming British Army training.
About us:
At OMNIA® Training, we’ve brought together some of the UK’s most innovative defence training organisations under one powerful mission: to transform the British Army’s training system and create the best-trained Army in the world.
OMNIA are redefining the British Army’s collective training. To do that, we are looking for the best and brightest minds from across the UK. We are backed by British innovation and powered by world-class experts, like you. OMNIA is at the heart of the UK’s bold Land Industrial Strategy.
The role:
This is more than a job — it’s a mission. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where we expect everyone to live the values and standards of the British Army. Every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering OMNIA’s vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training so the British Army is ready to fight and win.
You’ll work in a matrix organisation and report operationally through OMNIA Training and functionally through the Chief Engineer. Ultimately, you’ll work for the British Army, championing innovation, and helping shape the future of military collective training.
Key Responsibilities:
2026-02-27
Country:
United Kingdom
Location:
Warminster, Wiltshire
Position Role Type:
Unspecified
Cloud & Platform Engineering Lead
Warminster based, hybrid working
Be at the forefront of transforming British Army training.
About us:
At OMNIA® Training, we’ve brought together some of the UK’s most innovative defence training organisations under one powerful mission: to transform the British Army’s training system and create the best-trained Army in the world.
OMNIA are redefining the British Army’s collective training. To do that, we are looking for the best and brightest minds from across the UK. We are backed by British innovation and powered by world-class experts, like you. OMNIA is at the heart of the UK’s bold Land Industrial Strategy.
The role:
This is more than a job — it’s a mission. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where we expect everyone to live the values and standards of the British Army. Every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering OMNIA’s vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training so the British Army is ready to fight and win.
You’ll work in a matrix organisation and report operationally through OMNIA Training and functionally through the Chief Engineer. Ultimately, you’ll work for the British Army, championing innovation, and helping shape the future of military collective training.
Key Responsibilities:
- Guiding and mentoring cloud platform engineers across multiple organisations, providing technical direction and support.
- Shaping the architecture and design of cloud solutions, ensuring alignment with business needs and best practices.
- Overseeing the management of cloud infrastructure, including provisioning, configuration, and maintenance.
- Collaborate with engineering, simulation, and training teams to ensure seamless integration across military training environments.
- Drive operational efficiencies through cloud adoption, DevSecOps and Ci\CD.
- Ensuring the security and compliance of cloud environments through the implementation of appropriate security controls and governance frameworks.
- Coordinate with engineering teams to validate technical requirements and design specifications.
- Leading and participating in cloud transformation projects, driving adoption of new technologies and methodologies.
- Author, review and contribute to High-Level Design (HLD) and technical documentation.
- Coordinate with cross-functional engineering teams—including QA, development, operations, and business SMEs.
- Communicate risks, issues, and readiness status to project sponsors and governance boards.
We’re after individuals who want to serve. You’ll have a mission focus, and the enthusiasm and drive to ‘get things done’. You’ll want to work in collaboration with other defence training organisations, and the British Army. You won’t let bureaucracy get in the way of what needs to be done, you’ll learn lessons and share these lessons across the team. You won’t necessarily have a military background, but you’ll understand what it means to serve and to put the mission first.
The OMNIA Training Cloud & Platform Eng Lead will provide technical oversight and management across the Army Collective Training Service (ACTS) Cloud based solutions and Platform approach. These will be prominently MODCloud hosted utilising Cloud Services from AWS, Azure, OCP where appropriate. Reporting directly to the Chief Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the Cloud architecture, design, implementation and delivery across the ACTS services and capabilities, focused on driving cloud-based solutions, both centrally and at the edge.
This role requires a systems-thinking mindset, strong stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to lead across engineering teams in a complex and evolving environment. Given the programme’s focus on modelling and simulation, familiarity with relevant standards and technologies is highly desirable.
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert or AWS Solutions Architect – Associate.
- Experience in managing and strong understanding of DevSecOps & CI/CD practices and pipelines.
- Experience with mobile edge computing, mesh networking, or tactical cloud solutions.
- Experience of: Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Quay, Elastic Stack, Anchore, Azure Arc, GitHub, GitOPs, Keycloak, Prometheus, Red Hat Ceph and Advanced Cluster Security, Grafana, Kafka.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures (containerization, orchestration, microservices).
- Understanding of cloud security best practices, security assessments, and governance frameworks.
- Ability to lead technical teams and collaborate across engineering, operations, and training domains.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Multi-cloud experience (AWS, GCP, OCI alongside primary cloud).
- Serverless architectures (Azure Functions, AWS Lambda).
- Advanced networking (SD-WAN, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect).
- Cloud security tools (Azure Security Center, AWS GuardDuty).
- Be Part of a Groundbreaking Mission Join the UK’s most advanced defence training alliance, where industry experts converge to push boundaries and deliver excellence.
- A Culture Built on Collaboration Work in an inclusive, high-performing team that celebrates ideas, supports growth, and is laser-focused on delivering results.
- Team dynamics You will be part of a team that works together, across multiple organisations united in one mission.
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