Platform Engineer

Date Posted:

Country: United Kingdom

Location: Gloucester, South Gloucestershire

Position Role Type: Onsite

Role: Platform Engineer

Employment Type: Permanent, full time

Hybrid: (min 3 days a week onsite)

All candidates must be willing and eligible to hold SC and eDV clearance.

At Raytheon UK, we are a leader in defence and aerospace technology, dedicated to fostering innovation and excellence.

Our National Security Cyber business delivers mission‑critical solutions that safeguard national security 24/7. We work in a mature, agile environment and our SCRUM teams solve tough digital challenges.

• Deploy applications and software to cloud or on‑prem environments for various business areas.
• Build and set up development tools and infrastructure.
• Understand the needs of project stakeholders.
• Automate and improve development and release processes.
• Ensure systems are safe and secure against cyber threats.
• Identify technical problems and develop software updates and solutions.
• Collaborate with other engineers to ensure development follows established processes and works as intended.

• Experience working in an Agile/SCRUM/Dev Ops delivery model.
• Cloud technologies (AWS or Azure).
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.).
• Experience building and deploying large‑scale applications.
• Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines.
• Container platform and orchestration systems (ECS, AKS, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker).
• Experience automation and integration tools (Jenkins, Concourse CI or cloud equivalents).
• Experience in scripting languages and source control.

• Competitive salary.
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution).
• Life Assurance with 6× salary plus pension.
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) plus statutory public holidays, and the option to buy/sell up to 5 days (37 hr).
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• Flexible benefits scheme, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family‑friendly policies including maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.

• 37‑hr working week (hours may vary by role or site).
• Early 1:30 pm finish on Fridays.
• Remote, hybrid and site‑based working opportunities.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
• Flexible working culture focused on output; formal arrangements assessed by role. Highlight requests to Talent Acquisition.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.