Platform Engineer: Hybrid Cloud & Automation

Vertical Aerospace Ltd.; West of England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Company pension scheme

Bonus - company performance

Job summary

Vertical Aerospace Ltd. in the United Kingdom is seeking a Platform Engineer to own reliability and evolution of our hybrid infrastructure, spanning Azure, Hyper-V, Linux, and Active Directory.

You’ll drive automation with Terraform, Azure DevOps and scripting to improve deployment, monitoring and security. You’ll collaborate across teams to shape platform strategy, explore Azure, AWS and emerging tech, and strengthen resilience with ISO 27001 compliance awareness.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience managing Microsoft Azure infrastructure and virtualization
• Experience with Hyper-V, Linux and Active Directory in hybrid setups
• Practical IaC experience with Terraform, Azure DevOps, scripting (PowerShell/Python/Bash)
• Solid monitoring/observability knowledge using Datadog, Grafana or Prometheus
• Experience enforcing security best practices and ISO 27001 compliance
• Experience backing up, recovery, disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• Ability to automate, scale and support production platforms with reliability
• Excellent cross-team collaboration and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Own platform reliability and resilience for cloud and on-premises infra
• Manage and modernise hybrid infrastructure (Azure, Hyper-V, Linux, AD)
• Drive automation with Terraform, Azure DevOps and scripting
• Strengthen security posture and vulnerability management
• Maintain and test backup, disaster recovery and business continuity
• Improve platform monitoring and performance with observability tools
• Collaborate with engineering to improve deployment processes and tooling
• Shape future platform strategy across Azure, AWS and emerging tech

Skills

Azure infrastructure

Hyper-V

Linux servers

Active Directory

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Scripting (PowerShell/Python/Bash)

Security best practices

Disaster recovery planning

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Job description

Vertical Aerospace Ltd. in the United Kingdom is seeking a Platform Engineer to own reliability and evolution of our hybrid infrastructure, spanning Azure, Hyper-V, Linux, and Active Directory.

You’ll drive automation with Terraform, Azure DevOps and scripting to improve deployment, monitoring and security. You’ll collaborate across teams to shape platform strategy, explore Azure, AWS and emerging tech, and strengthen resilience with ISO 27001 compliance awareness.