Platform Engineer
Vertical Aerospace
Overview
In this Platform Engineer role you will own and evolve the hybrid cloud and on-premise infrastructure at Vertical Aerospace, focusing on reliability, security, and scalable operations. You will collaborate across teams to automate and improve deployment, monitoring, and resilience of Azure-centric and hybrid platforms. The role supports rapid growth towards airliner-level safety certification and scalable green aviation tech. You will shape platform strategy and drive secure, automated, and observable environments.
Pay / Benefits- 26 days holiday
- 5 extra days to buy/sell
- 4% of salary on extra benefits
- digital health service
- Company performance-based bonus
- Company Share Scheme
- Own platform reliability and resilience for cloud and on-premises infrastructure
- Manage and modernise hybrid infrastructure (Azure, Hyper-V, Linux, Active Directory)
- Drive automation and continuous improvement using Terraform, Azure DevOps, and scripting
- Strengthen security posture and support ISO 27001 compliance
- Maintain and test backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans
- Improve platform monitoring and observability to optimise reliability
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment processes and tooling
- Shape future platform strategy across Azure, AWS, and emerging tech
- Strong hands-on experience managing Microsoft Azure infrastructure (VMs, scale sets, AKS, storage, managed databases)
- Experience administering Hyper-V, Linux, and Active Directory in hybrid setups
- Practical experience with infrastructure as code and automation (Terraform, Azure DevOps, scripting like PowerShell, Python, Bash)
- Solid understanding of monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus)
- Experience applying security best practices and ISO 27001 compliance
- Experience backup, recovery, DR, and business continuity testing
- proactive problem-solving
- strong collaboration and cross-team communication
- ability to translate complex challenges into practical solutions
- Azure infrastructure management (VMs, scale sets, AKS, storage, databases)
- Hyper-V and Linux administration
- Active Directory administration
Reference: WJ-747_31184691 · Posted 01 Nov 2026, 12:09 PM