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Platform Engineer
£39,000 - 79,000
VERTICAL AEROSPACE GROUP LTD
Small Street, Bristol
£39,000 - 79,000
Requirements
Must:
- Strong experience with Azure cloud services and infrastructure management, including Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, Container Apps/Instances, AKS, Azure Storage, and Azure Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL)
- Experience administering Hyper-V, Linux, and Microsoft Active Directory environments
- Solid grounding in observability tools (DataDog / Grafana / Prometheus)
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Azure DevOps, and scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash)
- Proven experience in vulnerability mitigation, security best practices, and ISO 27001 compliance
- Experience with backup, recovery, and DR/BCP testing
- Track record of automating, scaling, and supporting production platforms
- A mindset centred on automation, resilience, and continuous improvement
- Desired: Experience with Azure High Performance Compute (HPC) or Slurm workload scheduling
- Desired: Experience with Kubernetes, Flux, Helm, and GitOps principles
- Desired: Experience building or supporting developer platforms (CI/CD tooling, environment automation, internal developer portals)
- Desired: Database experience (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL)
- Desired: Strong understanding of network fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, VLANs, routing)
- Desired: Familiarity with AWS or multi-cloud architectures
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of the security posture, resilience, and reliability of our platforms, including vulnerability mitigation, configuration hardening, and monitoring
- Maintain and modernise our hybrid infrastructure spanning Azure cloud services, on-premise Hyper-V servers, and Microsoft Active Directory
- Manage and regularly test our backup, disaster recovery (DR), and business continuity (BCP) processes
- Design, automate, and operate cloud services across Azure (and future AWS workloads) using Terraform, Azure DevOps, and scripting languages
- Develop observability and monitoring standards using tools such as DataDog, Grafana, and Prometheus
- Support container-based workloads through Azure Container Apps, AKS, and related services
- Ensure operational excellence and continuous improvement aligned with frameworks such as ISO 27001
- Partner with engineering, security, and cross-functional teams to build scalable, reliable, secure systems
- Contribute to the development of a modern, multi-cloud, hybrid platform strategy
Description
At Vertical Aerospace, we are pioneering the way for electric aviation with our Valo eVTOL aircraft, aiming for airliner-level safety certification in 2028. Our mission is to redefine aerospace best practices and build a flexible, supportive environment for our team. We offer competitive benefits, including 26 days holiday, additional bonus opportunities, and a company pension scheme. We strive for continuous innovation and success, making us an ideal place for those seeking to challenge themselves and make a significant impact in the field of Advanced Air Mobility.
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