Senior Platform Engineer - North West England

Salary: £50,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements

• We require candidates to be willing and eligible to hold SC and eDV clearance.
• We require experience of working in an Agile, SCRUM or DevOps delivery model.
• We require experience with cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure.
• We require experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Puppet, Chef or Ansible.
• We require experience building and deploying large-scale applications in Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines.
• We require experience with container platforms and orchestration systems such as ECS, AKS, Kubernetes, Helm or Docker.
• We require experience with automation and integration tools such as Jenkins, Concourse CI or cloud equivalents.
• We require experience in scripting languages and source control.

Responsibilities

• We deploy applications and software to cloud or on-prem 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 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.

Technologies

• 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. Our National Security Cyber business delivers mission-critical solutions that safeguard national security 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We work in a mature, agile SCRUM environment, solving tough digital challenges alongside our customers. This is a permanent, full-time Senior Platform Engineer role based in Manchester, working in a hybrid arrangement with a minimum of 3 days per week on site. We offer a competitive salary, contributory pension scheme with up to 10.5% company contribution, life assurance, 25 days holiday plus public holidays, a company bonus scheme, flexible benefits, enhanced sick pay, enhanced family-friendly policies, a 37-hour working week, early Friday finishes, remote and hybrid working options, and up to 5 paid volunteering days each year.

last updated 26 week of 2026