Platform Engineer

The role

You will maintain and evolve hybrid infrastructure spanning Microsoft Azure, on-premises Hyper-V servers, and Active Directory. You will drive automation, strengthen security, and manage platform reliability and resilience.

What you will do

• Own platform reliability and resilience for cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Manage and modernise hybrid infrastructure including Azure, Hyper-V, Linux, and 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, recovery, disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Improve platform monitoring and performance using observability tools.
• Collaborate with engineering and technology teams to improve deployment processes and developer tooling.
• Help shape future platform strategy across Azure, AWS and emerging technologies.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience managing Microsoft Azure infrastructure including virtual machines, scale sets, container services, AKS, storage and managed databases.
• Experience administering Hyper-V, Linux and Microsoft Active Directory environments.
• Practical experience with infrastructure as code and automation using Terraform, Azure DevOps and scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python or Bash.
• Understanding of platform monitoring and observability using tools such as Datadog, Grafana or Prometheus.
• Experience applying security best practices and supporting compliance with frameworks such as ISO 27001.
• Experience managing backup, recovery, disaster recovery and business continuity processes.
• Ability to automate, scale and support production platforms.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-performance computing (HPC) environments in Azure, including Slurm workload scheduling.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Flux, Helm and GitOps approaches.
• Experience developing or supporting internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines and automated development environments.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server administration and performance optimisation.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, VLANs and routing.
• Exposure to AWS or multi-cloud architectures.

Benefits

• 26 days holiday, plus bank holiday
• 5 extra days per year to buy (or sell)
• 5 extra days holiday when you get married or enter a civil partnership
• Additional 4% of your salary to spend on extra benefits
• Award-winning digital health and wellbeing service (Help@Hand)
• Company performance based bonus
• Company Share Scheme
• Company Pension Scheme - 5% and they match
• Breakfast on us, every day

About the company

Vertical Aerospace is pioneering the way for electric aviation with the Valo eVTOL aircraft. The company is growing from a prototype business to a scaling SME.