--- title: 'Platform Engineer at Skyral Group' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/platform-engineer-skyral-group-warminster-rbe4qgfspvq1' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Platform Engineer at Skyral Group - **Company:** Skyral Group - **Location:** Warminster, United Kingdom - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/skyralio/ddfb43a3-ebca-4fd1-a159-533fc8a350f0 ## Job description We Are Skyral: We believe every decision maker can be empowered by technology. Skyral combines AI, leading edge simulation technology and world class expertise to transform the decision making experience. Our products and services enable faster and more confident decisions in a complex, unforgiving world. We deploy practical, intuitive and efficient solutions to governments and enterprises, delivering outstanding outcomes at the speed of relevance. 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 Training is redefining the British Army’s collective training. To do that, we are looking for the best and brightest minds from across the UK. Omnia Training is at the heart of the UK’s bold Land Industrial Strategy. This is more than a job — it’s a mission. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering Omnia Training’s vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training. ## MPORTANT – PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING This role is based full-time onsite in Warminster, Wiltshire. You will be required to work from the Warminster site five days per week. This is not a hybrid or remote role, and we cannot accommodate candidates who are only able to attend the site for part of the working week. Security Clearance (SC) is a mandatory requirement for this role. To be considered, you must have been resident in the UK for the last five years and be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance. If you do not meet this residency requirement, we will not be able to progress your application. Please only apply if you meet both of these requirements: five days per week onsite in Warminster, Wiltshire, and five years’ UK residency for SC clearance. What You’ll Be Responsible For: - Deploy and configure systems on MODCloud / D2S / OpenShift - Manage Kubernetes environments, networking and connectivity, as well as security-aligned configurations. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and environment configurations to ensure repeatable and reliable deployments. - Support running systems by monitoring health, diagnosing platform and infrastructure issues and resolving deployment failures. - Work closely with integration engineers, customers and modelling engineers. - Support and maintain existing simulation and training systems, as well as existing deployment and virtualisation tools. - Apply SRE practices to improve system reliability, including observability (metrics, logs, tracing), incident response, and root cause analysis. What We Are Looking For: This is not a pure cloud or greenfield platform role. You will be working across cloud-native services, legacy systems, and integrated simulation environments, ensuring they operate reliably as a single platform. Strong systems and infrastructure mindset - Comfortable working across modern and legacy environments - Calm under pressure during outages or failures - Pragmatic and delivery-focused, with a bias toward keeping systems running. - Strong collaborator across engineering disciplines - Adopts an SRE mindset, focusing on reliability, observability, and continuous improvement of running systems. Key Technical Proficiencies: - Expert working knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, Teraform, Ansible, and Docker. - Understanding of Distributed Systems in production. - Experience working within constrained or regulated environments (e.g. MODCloud, D2S, OpenShift) and adapting to their tooling and limitations. - Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines with automated deployment workflows. - Familiarity with GitOps approaches and tools such as ArgoCD. - Strong understanding of Network fundamentals, Zero Trust solutions, service to service communications and distributed system connectivity. - Ability to diagnose issues across infrastructure, networking, and application layers. - Experience supporting or integrating legacy and non-cloud-native systems alongside modern infrastructure. - Experience in developing with Go or Python as well as shell scripting. - Experience applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices such as monitoring, alerting, incident response, and service reliability improvement. ## About Skyral Group ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Skyral Group builds advanced modelling, simulation, and AI-powered decision-support systems for enterprise, defence, and national security customers. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) – total funding $20M - **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom - **Founded**: Year not publicly available (company states “over a decade” of history) - **Founders**: Jason Kennedy (CEO), Naomi Hulme (CEO – Skyral Defence & Government), Nick Blair (Executive Chairman) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Defence & National Security, Enterprise Software, AI-Driven Simulation - **Target customers**: Western governments, defence organisations, and large enterprises facing high-stakes, complex decision-making challenges - **Mission**: “Every decision maker can be empowered by technology” – putting people in the ideal position to make the best decisions based on both knowns and unknowns. ## Products & Services - **Decision Support Systems**: AI-fused, simulation-based tools that help users test and refine choices in digital environments before acting in the real world. - **Digital Twins**: Real-time digital representations of complex scenarios (e.g. military operations, unstable markets) for strategy testing and risk mitigation. - **Modelling & Simulation Suite**: Modular, open, and interoperable software that integrates with existing systems; covers data fusion, AI/ML, and scenario modelling. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding $20M (Series A led by NOIA Capital, announced July 2025) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: NOIA Capital (lead), plus one prior corporate round investor - **Growth Signals**: Active contracts with Western governments and enterprises; headcount ~50 employees (down ~24% YoY, though company maintains active hiring with 3 open roles); high LinkedIn follower growth (+26.5% YoY); team includes alumni from Google, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Palantir, elite military units, and Formula 1 ## Competitive Advantages - Deep domain expertise in defence and national security – “we are experts in selling to governments and hold multiple production contracts” - Technology built for security and extensibility – modular, open, interoperable design allows rapid deployment with low disruption - Partnership model rather than vendor – they work as “technology partners” who understand customer challenges first-hand ## Strategic Focus - Continue to expand modelling & simulation footprint across Western governments and allied nations - Apply core technology to commercial enterprise markets (e.g. digital twins for unstable markets) - Build on Series A funding to scale team, product, and customer delivery ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Radical and pioneering” company with a focus on mission-driven impact (preservation of security, prosperity, freedom). Diverse, high-calibre team. - **Hybrid/Remote**: Minimum 2 days/week in the central London office; flexible scheduling with manager approval. - **Perks & Benefits**: Unlimited paid holiday; enhanced parental leave (26 weeks full-pay maternity, 4 weeks paternity); private medical & dental insurance; company pension; employee assistance programme; dog-friendly office; company swag. - **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on problem-solving, innovation through iteration, and working on the “most important mission”. Technical stack includes AI, simulation, data fusion, and secure system design. ## Sources 1. [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/skyral) 2. [Skyral – Our Story](https://www.skyral.com/our-story/) 3. [Skyral – Our People](https://www.skyral.com/our-people/) 4. [Skyral – Join Us](https://www.skyral.com/join-us/) 5. 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