Platform Engineer

Vertical Aerospace is an electric aviation company developing the Valo eVTOL aircraft. This Platform Engineer role focuses on maintaining and evolving hybrid infrastructure spanning Microsoft Azure, on-premises Hyper-V servers, and Active Directory, with responsibility for automation, reliability, security, and performance across cloud and on-premises systems.

• Own platform reliability and resilience, ensuring cloud and on-premises infrastructure remains secure, available and able to support evolving business needs
• Manage and modernise hybrid infrastructure including Azure cloud services, Hyper‑V environments, Linux servers and Microsoft Active Directory
• Drive automation and continuous improvement using Terraform, Azure Dev Ops and scripting to simplify infrastructure management and improve consistency
• Strengthen security posture by identifying vulnerabilities, applying security best practices and supporting ISO 27001 compliance
• Maintain and test backup and recovery processes including disaster recovery and business continuity plans
• Improve platform monitoring and performance using observability tools to identify issues and optimise reliability
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment processes, support developer tooling and build scalable infrastructure solutions

• Strong hands‑on experience managing Microsoft Azure infrastructure including virtual machines, scale sets, container services, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), storage and managed databases
• Experience administering Hyper‑V, Linux and Microsoft Active Directory environments with understanding of hybrid infrastructure
• Practical experience with infrastructure as code and automation, particularly Terraform, Azure Dev Ops and scripting languages such as Power Shell, Python or Bash
• Solid understanding of platform monitoring and observability using tools such as Datadog, Grafana or Prometheus
• Experience applying security best practices, managing vulnerabilities and supporting compliance with ISO 27001
• Experience managing backup, recovery, disaster recovery and business continuity processes
• Proven ability to automate, scale and support production platforms with proactive approach to problem‑solving and reliability

• Experience with high‑performance computing (HPC) environments in Azure, including Slurm workload scheduling
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Flux, Helm and Git Ops approaches to infrastructure and application delivery
• 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

26 days holiday plus bank holidays, 5 extra days per year to buy or sell, 5 extra days when married or entering civil partnership, additional 4% of salary for benefits, digital health and wellbeing service, company performance‑based bonus, company share scheme, 5% pension scheme matched by employer, daily breakfast