Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer – Manchester

Permanent, full‑time; Hybrid (minimum 3 days a week onsite).

Company

Raytheon UK is a leader in defence and aerospace technology. We are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

Security Clearance

All candidates must be willing and eligible to hold SC and eDV clearance.

Responsibilities

• Deploy applications and software to cloud or on‑premise environments for various business areas.
• Build and set up development tools and infrastructure.
• Understand the needs of project stakeholders.
• Automate and improve development and release processes.
• Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cyber‑security threats.
• Identify technical problems and develop software updates and solutions.
• Work with other engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in an Agile/SCRUM/DevOps delivery model.
• Cloud technologies (AWS or Azure).
• Infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible).
• Experience building and deploying large‑scale applications in Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines.
• Container platforms and orchestration systems (ECS, AKS, Kubernetes/helm/Docker).
• Experience with automation and integration tools such as Jenkins, Concourse CI or cloud equivalents.
• Experience in scripting languages and source control.

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