Platform Engineer

Cambridge Aerospace; Cambridge; Vor Ort; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Stock options

Private Medical & Dental

Cycle to work scheme

Zusammenfassung

Cambridge Aerospace is seeking an engineer for the Platform team to design and own the cloud platform architecture, enabling scalable apps with security, reliability and efficiency. You’ll build reusable IaC, pipelines, and tooling used by multiple teams, while embedding security considerations in every layer.

You will collaborate across engineering, manufacturing, and other departments, mentor engineers, and help lift platform capabilities while exploring new tools and faster workflows.

Qualifikationen

• Experience designing cloud platform architecture from scratch in AWS and/or Azure.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills (e.g. Terraform) with reusable modules.
• Proficiency in Python or TypeScript for platform tooling or automation.
• Experience designing CI/CD systems and deployment patterns.
• Experience hosting containerized/serverless workloads and managed data services (e.g. PostgreSQL).
• End-to-end system development: requirements to handover; industry standards like Git, project planning, agile workflows.

Aufgaben

• Design and own the architecture of the cloud platform, balancing security, reliability, cost and efficiency.
• Build self-service IaC modules, templates, pipelines and tooling for teams to use independently.
• Incorporate security into the platform via secure network design and least-privilege access.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to translate needs into platform architecture.
• Identify opportunities to enable other teams with new tools or better systems.
• Mentor engineers and raise platform/infrastructure skills across the team.

Kenntnisse

Platform architecture design

CI/CD design

Programming: Python/TypeScript

Security-conscious design

End-to-end SDLC

Agile workflows

Tools

Terraform

Git

Ansible

Jobbeschreibung

As an engineer in the Platform team you will be building the foundational features to enable the development and hosting of applications to a design that promotes 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 enhance our platform.

Responsibilities

• Design and own the architecture of our cloud platform, including account/subscription structure, networking, identity, compute, data and observability, balancing security, reliability, cost and operational efficiency
• Build self-service capabilities (reusable IaC modules, templates, pipelines and tooling) that teams use independently
• Build security into the platform through secure network design, least-privilege access, and using security monitoring tools
• Work with engineering teams to understand their needs and turn them into the platform architecture
• Identify opportunities to enable other teams by introducing new tools or improving existing systems
• Mentor engineers and raise the platform and infrastructure skills of the wider team

Requirements

• Experience designing cloud platform architecture from scratch in AWS and/or Azure, including multi-account/subscription structure, networking and identity
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills (e.g. Terraform), including authoring reusable, versioned modules used by other teams
• Proficiency in a programming language such as Python or TypeScript, used to build platform tooling, automation or services
• Experience designing CI/CD systems and deployment patterns for diverse requirements
• Experience designing hosting patterns for containerized and serverless workloads, and managed data services (e.g. PostgreSQL)
• Experience in end-to-end of system development: Requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, documentation, & handover
• Experience working in industry following industry expected standards such as: Git, project planning, agile workflows

Preferred Experience

• Experience with both Azure & AWS
• Designing observability platforms and FinOps
• Automated testing of infrastructure code
• Designing or building data platform infrastructure
• Configuration management (e.g. Ansible)
• Experience in the manufacturing and/or aerospace industry
• Using AI tools to speed up your work while keeping quality high and your own understanding solid
• Manufacturing, aerospace, or other hardware-focused industries
• Start-ups or other fast-paced engineering environments

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and stock options
• Private Medical & Dental
• Cycle to work scheme

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.