Principal Platform Engineer
Location: Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Employment type: Permanent, full time. Hybrid (min 3 days a week).
Security clearances required: SC and eDV clearance.
About the role: Work as a Principal Platform Engineer, deploying applications and software to cloud or on‑premises environments for various business areas in a mature, agile environment. The team works synchronously with customers to solve digital challenges.
Responsibilities
- Deploy applications and software to cloud or on‑premises environments.
- 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 that development follows established processes and works as intended.
Required Experience
- Experience working in an Agile/SCRUM/DevOps delivery model.
- Experience with cloud technologies (AWS or Azure).
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible).
- Experience building and deploying large‑scale applications in Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines; container platform and orchestration systems (ECS, AKS, Kubernetes/helm/Docker).
- Experience with automation and integration tools such as Jenkins, Concourse CI, or cloud equivalents.
- Experience with scripting languages and source control.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution).
- 6 times salary "Life Assurance" with pension.
- 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr).
- Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
- Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work.
- Enhanced sick pay.
- Enhanced family‑friendly policies, including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.
Work Culture
- 37‑hour working week; hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site‑specific arrangements.
- Early 1.30pm finish on Friday, start your weekend early.
- Remote, hybrid, and site‑based working opportunities, depending on your needs and the requirements of the role.
- Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
- Flexible working culture focused on output with formal flexible arrangements on request (assessed subject to role). Highlight any requests to Talent Acquisition.
Equal Opportunity
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
