Principal Platform Engineer
Summary
Principal Platform Engineer builds and secures cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for defence and aerospace systems using AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
Salary: £50,000 - 90,000 per year
Requirements:- We require candidates to be willing and eligible to hold SC and eDV clearance.
- We require candidates to be willing to attain eDV clearance.
- Experience working in an Agile, Scrum, or DevOps delivery model.
- Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure.
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
- Experience building and deploying large-scale applications in Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines.
- Experience with container platforms and orchestration systems such as ECS, AKS, Kubernetes, Helm, or Docker.
- Experience with automation and integration tools such as Jenkins, Concourse CI, or cloud equivalents.
- Experience with scripting languages and source control.
- We deploy applications and software to cloud or on-premises environments across our business areas.
- We build and set up development tools and infrastructure.
- We understand the needs of project stakeholders.
- We automate and improve development and release processes.
- We ensure our systems are safe and secure against cyber security threats.
- We identify technical problems and develop software updates and solutions.
- We work with other engineers to ensure development follows established processes and works as intended.
- AWS
- Ansible
- Azure
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Docker
- Helm
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- Puppet
- Security
- Terraform
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We are Raytheon UK, a leader in defence and aerospace technology, and our National Security Cyber business delivers mission-critical solutions that help safeguard national security 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We work in a mature, agile environment, with SCRUM teams collaborating closely with our customers to solve some of the toughest digital challenges today. This is a permanent, full-time Principal Platform Engineer role based in Manchester, with a hybrid working model of at least three days a week on site.
last updated 32 week of 2026