Quick overview
Job description
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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