Hybrid Cloud Platform Engineer

Vertical Aerospace; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday + bank holidays

5 extra days to buy or sell

Extra 5 days for marriage or civilpart

4% of salary to extra benefits

Help@Hand digital health and wellbeing

Performance-based bonus

Company Share Scheme

Company Pension Scheme - 5% match

Breakfast on us

Job summary

Vertical Aerospace is seeking a Platform Engineer to own the reliability and security of our hybrid infrastructure, spanning Azure cloud, on-prem Hyper-V, Linux servers and Active Directory. You will champion automation, continuity planning, and scalable solutions while collaborating across teams to strengthen deployment processes and tooling.

You’ll drive improvements in monitoring and performance, implement security best practices, and help shape our multi-cloud strategy as we scale toward

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience managing Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
• Experience administering Hyper-V, Linux and Microsoft Active Directory environments.
• Practical experience with infrastructure as code and automation (Terraform, Azure DevOps).
• Solid understanding of platform monitoring/observability (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus).
• Experience applying security best practices and ISO 27001 compliance.

Responsibilities

• Own platform reliability and resilience, ensuring secure, available cloud and on-prem infrastructure.
• Manage and modernise hybrid infrastructure including Azure, Hyper-V, Linux servers, and AD.
• Drive automation with Terraform, Azure DevOps, and scripting to reduce manual effort.
• Strengthen security posture and support vulnerability management and ISO 27001 compliance.
• Maintain and test backup, disaster recovery and business continuity processes.
• Improve platform monitoring, troubleshooting, and reliability using observability tools.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment processes and tooling.
• Shape future platform strategy across Azure, AWS and emerging technologies.

Job description

Vertical Aerospace is seeking a Platform Engineer to own the reliability and security of our hybrid infrastructure, spanning Azure cloud, on-prem Hyper-V, Linux servers and Active Directory. You will champion automation, continuity planning, and scalable solutions while collaborating across teams to strengthen deployment processes and tooling.

You’ll drive improvements in monitoring and performance, implement security best practices, and help shape our multi-cloud strategy as we scale toward