Infrastructure Engineer

Pace XL Ltd.; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and stock @

Private Medical & Dental

Cycle to work scheme

Lunchtime catering on site

Job summary

Cambridge Aerospace is seeking an engineer for the Platform team to build foundational features enabling secure, reliable, and cost‑efficient hosting of applications. You will work across cloud services, IaC, and serverless tech, collaborating with engineering, manufacturing, and other departments.

You will design and deliver complex platform architectures, develop to your designs, and train colleagues while improving tools and processes to boost resilience and velocity.

Qualifications

• Proficiency with IaC languages such as Terraform, CloudFormation or Ansible.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for your own work or others.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or similar SQL databases.
• Experience supporting serverless technologies (S3, DynamoDB, Lambda) on AWS.
• Experience supporting containerized applications with Docker.
• Experience designing complex platform architectures from scratch.
• Experience working with Git, project planning and Agile workflows.
• End‑to‑end of system development: requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, documentation, handover.

Responsibilities

• Design complex multi-platform systems and processes.
• Develop and deliver to your designs, balancing quality and efficiency.
• Train other team members using your skills and experience.
• Collaborate with other teams to design and develop cross‑team systems.
• Identify opportunities to enable other teams by introducing new tools or improving existing ones.
• Support identification and remediation of security issues.

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

AWS

Azure

PostgreSQL

Docker

S3

Lambda

DynamoDB

Git

Python

Bash

Job description

Overview

As an Engineer in the Platform team you will be building the foundational features to support the development and hosting of applications to a design that supports security, reliability, operational efficiency, and cost.
Your users are your own colleagues, across engineering, manufacturing, and all other departments. Feedback loops are extremely fast; our goal is to enable the company to move faster and increase our resilience.
You will need to be comfortable working across a wide array of technologies, and picking up those which you are not yet familiar with. These may be cloud providers, configuration management languages, or SaaS services designed to monitor and support our platform.

Responsibilities

• Design complex multi-platform systems & processes
• Develop and deliver to your designs, balancing quality and efficiency
• Train other members of the team using your skills and experience
• Work with other teams to design and develop cross-team systems
• Identify opportunities to enable other teams by introducing new tools or improving existing tools
• Support with the identification and remediation of security issues

Requirements

• Proficiency with one or more IaC languages such as terraform, CloudFormation or ansible
• Experience building CI/CD Pipelines for your own work or others
• Experience with PostgreSQL or similar SQL Databases
• Experience supporting applications using serverless technologies such as AWS’s S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables, or Lambda functions
• Experience supporting containerized applications with Docker
• Experience designing complex platform architectures from scratch
• Experience working in industry following industry expected standards such as: Git, project planning, agile workflows
• Experience in end-to-end of system development: Requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, documentation, & handover

Preferred Experience

• Experience with both Azure & AWS
• Experience in a programing or scripting language such as python or bash
• Experience in the manufacturing and/or aerospace industry
• Experience building automated tests to catch bugs early in the development process
• Experience designing, building or supporting Data platform infrastructure
• Experience leveraging AI to accelerate your work while maintaining your knowledge base and work quality
• Experience working in a start-up or other fast paced engineering environment

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and stock options
• Private Medical & Dental
• Cycle to work scheme
• Lunchtime catering on site

About Us

The mission of Cambridge Aerospace is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe. That risk comes from the air – low-cost drones and cruise missiles now manufactured in colossal volumes by our adversaries, ballistic missiles capable of ending the world as we know it, and a new generation of hypersonic weapons that evade every existing defence.
We’re building low-cost interceptors that defeat these threats, and the surveillance systems to detect and target them – at a cost taxpayers can afford, at the pace the threat demands, and with sovereign supply chains that assure delivery.
We have immense backing from the world’s best venture funds. We’re one of the fastest growing defence technology companies in history. And we’re hiring the best engineers to prosecute the mission.
If you are in the top 1%, willing to work harder than you ever have, build technology better than anyone else, and contribute to the defining challenge of our time, now is the time to join us.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.