Senior Platform Engineer

Salary: £50,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Willing and eligible to hold SC and eDV clearance
• Experience of 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 and 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

Responsibilities:

• Build and set up development tools and infrastructure
• Understand the needs of project stakeholders
• Automate and improve development and release processes
• Ensure systems are safe and secure against cyber security threats
• Identify technical problems and develop software updates and solutions
• Work with other engineers to ensure development follows established processes and works as intended

Technologies:

• AWS
• Ansible
• Azure
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• Helm
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Puppet
• Security
• Terraform

More:

We are Raytheon UK, a leader in defence and aerospace technology, and our National Security Cyber business delivers mission-critical solutions that safeguard national security around the clock. We work in a mature, agile environment where our SCRUM teams collaborate closely with customers to solve complex digital challenges. This is a permanent, full-time Senior Platform Engineer role based in Gloucester, working hybrid with a minimum of three days per week on site.

last updated 35 week of 2026