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Principal Platform Engineer

RaytheonNorth West England, UK🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 9 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
On Site
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Leader

Job Description

Principal Platform Engineer

Manchester

Permanent, full time

Hybrid (min 3 days a week on site)

Due to the interesting work we do and the sector this team is working in, we require all candidates to be willing and eligible to hold SC and eDV clearance.

About us

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

Cyber

Our National Security Cyber business delivers mission-critical solutions that safeguard our national security 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Working in a mature, agile environment, our SCRUM teams work synchronously with our customers to solve some of the toughest digital challenges faced in the world today.

Role & Responsibilities

Work as a Principal Platform Engineer, deploying applications and software to cloud or on-prem environments for our many business areas.

Due to the interesting work we do and the sector this team is working in, we require all candidates to be willing to attain an eDV clearance.

  • Building and setting 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

Required experience

  • Experience of working in an Agile/SCRUM/DevOps delivery model

  • Cloud technologies (AWS or Azure)

  • Infrastructure as code e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc.

  • Experience in building and deploying large-scale applications in

  • Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines;

  • Container platform and orchestration systems ECS, AKS, Kubernetes/helm/Docker

  • Experience in automation and integration tools such as Jenkins,

  • Concourse CI or cloud equivalents

  • Experience in scripting languages and source control


Skills

Docker
AWS
Scrum
Agile
Ansible
Azure
Chef
Helm
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Puppet
SAFe
Terraform

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