Platform Engineer

• 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.

Your ability to move fast, solve complex systems challenges, and continuously improve infrastructure reliability will be crucial to the impact you make in this role, supporting the development of electric aviation that sets new safety standards and reduces emissions.

• 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).

26 days holiday plus bank holidays, 5 extra days per year to buy/sell, 5 extra days for marriage/civil partnership, additional 4% of salary for extra benefits, digital health and wellbeing service, company performance-based bonus, company share scheme, company pension scheme (5% matched), daily breakfast provided.

Vertical Aerospace is pioneering electric aviation with their eVTOL zero-emissions aircraft called Valo, aiming to set new safety standards and redefine aerospace best practices while targeting airliner-level safety certification by 2028.