Hybrid Platform Engineer - Azure & On-Prem Infra

LinuxCareers; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertical Aerospace is seeking a Platform Engineer to maintain and evolve a hybrid infrastructure spanning Azure cloud, on-prem Hyper-V, and Active Directory. You will own reliability, security, and performance, and drive automation with Terraform and scripting.

Responsibilities include modernising the hybrid stack, supporting disaster recovery, and improving monitoring and deployment processes in collaboration with engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience managing Microsoft Azure infrastructure including VMs, scale sets, storage and AKS.
• Experience administering Hyper-V, Linux and Active Directory in a hybrid setup.
• Practical IaC and automation with Terraform, Azure DevOps and scripting languages (PowerShell/Python/Bash).
• Solid understanding of observability with Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus.
• Experience with security best practices and ISO 27001 compliance.
• Experience backing up, recovering, and executing disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Proven ability to automate, scale and support production platforms with reliability.

Responsibilities

• Own platform reliability and resilience across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Manage and modernise hybrid infrastructure including Azure, Hyper‑V, Linux, and AD.
• Drive automation and improvements using Terraform, Azure DevOps and scripting.
• Strengthen security posture and ISO 27001 alignment.
• Maintain and test backup, recovery, DR and BC plans.
• Improve platform monitoring and performance with observability tools.
• Collaborate with engineering to enhance deployment processes and developer tooling.

Skills

Azure

Hyper-V

Linux

Active Directory

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Scripting

Observability

ISO 27001

Backup/DR

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

Tools

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Job description

Vertical Aerospace is seeking a Platform Engineer to maintain and evolve a hybrid infrastructure spanning Azure cloud, on-prem Hyper-V, and Active Directory. You will own reliability, security, and performance, and drive automation with Terraform and scripting.

Responsibilities include modernising the hybrid stack, supporting disaster recovery, and improving monitoring and deployment processes in collaboration with engineering teams.