Platform Engineer
Vertical Aerospace2 days ago
Bristol, CT, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Own platform reliability and resilience across secure, available cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
- Manage and modernise Azure, Hyper-V, Linux, and Active Directory environments.
- Automate infrastructure management using Terraform, Azure DevOps, and scripting.
- Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and support ISO 27001 compliance.
- Maintain and test backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes.
- Improve monitoring, observability, performance, troubleshooting, and reliability.
- Collaborate with engineering and technology teams on deployment processes, developer tooling, and scalable infrastructure.
- Help shape future platform strategy across Azure, AWS, and emerging technologies.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience managing Microsoft Azure infrastructure, including virtual machines, scale sets, container services, Azure Kubernetes Service, storage, and managed databases.
- Experience administering Hyper-V, Linux, and Microsoft Active Directory in hybrid infrastructure environments.
- Practical infrastructure-as-code and automation experience with Terraform, Azure DevOps, and PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
- Experience with platform monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus.
- Experience applying security best practices, managing vulnerabilities, and supporting ISO 27001 compliance.
- Experience managing and testing backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes.
- Proven ability to automate, scale, and support production platforms.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to share knowledge and explain complex technical challenges.
- Preferred experience with Azure HPC environments and Slurm workload scheduling.
- Preferred familiarity with Kubernetes, Flux, Helm, and GitOps infrastructure and application delivery.
- Preferred experience supporting internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and automated development environments.
- Preferred knowledge of PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Microsoft SQL Server administration and performance optimisation.
- Preferred understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, VLANs, and routing.
- Preferred exposure to AWS or multi-cloud architectures.
Benefits
- 26 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
- Five additional days per year available to buy or sell.
- Five extra holiday days upon marriage or entering a civil partnership.
- Additional 4% of salary to spend on extra benefits.
- Award-winning digital health and wellbeing service through Help@Hand.
- Company performance-based bonus.
- Company Share Scheme open to every Vertical employee.
- Company Pension Scheme with 5% employer matching.
- Breakfast provided every day.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureBashDatadogGrafanaHelmKubernetesLinuxMicrosoft SQL ServerMySQLPostgreSQLPowerShellPrometheusPythonTerraform
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About Vertical Aerospace
Vertical Aerospace designs and develops electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for urban and regional air transport operators. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bristol, it is publicly listed on the NYSE (ticker: EVTL). Its program, including the VX4 (Valo) aircraft, targets commercial certification later this decade and has attracted conditional pre-orders from airlines such as American Airlines and Virgin Atlantic.