{"id":2581128,"url":"https://alion.io/job/cambridge-aerospace-principal-platform-engineer","title":"Principal Platform Engineer","company":{"id":1966424,"name":"Cambridge Aerospace","domain":"cambridgeaerospace.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/cambridgeaerospace","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"HiBob","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":12,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Cambridge, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":88000,"max_usd":155000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":26},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Configuration Management","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Ansible","optional":true},{"name":"FinOps","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-06T06:50:26Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-15","last_verified_at":"2026-10-15T06:19:17Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":8,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":8},"description":"OverviewAs an engineer in the Platform team you will be building the foundational features to enable the development and hosting of applications to a design that promotes security, reliability, operational efficiency, and cost.\nYour users are your own colleagues, across engineering, manufacturing, and all other departments. Feedback loops are extremely fast; our goal is to enable the company to move faster and increase our resilience.\nYou will need to be comfortable working across a wide array of technologies, and picking up those which you are not yet familiar with. These may be cloud providers, configuration management languages, or SaaS services designed to monitor and enhance our platform.\nResponsibilities\nDesign and own the architecture of our cloud platform, including account/subscription structure, networking, identity, compute, data and observability, balancing security, reliability, cost and operational efficiency\nBuild self-service capabilities (reusable IaC modules, templates, pipelines and tooling) that teams use independently\nBuild security into the platform through secure network design, least-privilege access, and using security monitoring tools\nWork with engineering teams to understand their needs and turn them into the platform architecture\nIdentify opportunities to enable other teams by introducing new tools or improving existing systems\nMentor engineers and raise the platform and infrastructure skills of the wider team\nRequirements\nExperience designing cloud platform architecture from scratch in AWS and/or Azure, including multi-account/subscription structure, networking and identity\nStrong Infrastructure as Code skills (e.g. Terraform), including authoring reusable, versioned modules used by other teams\nProficiency in a programming language such as Python or TypeScript, used to build platform tooling, automation or services\nExperience designing CI/CD systems and deployment patterns for diverse requirements\nExperience designing hosting patterns for containerized and serverless workloads, and managed data services (e.g. PostgreSQL)\nExperience in end-to-end of system development: Requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, documentation, & handover\nExperience working in industry following industry expected standards such as: Git, project planning, agile workflows\nPreferred Experience\nExperience with both Azure & AWS\nKubernetes platform design\nDesigning observability platforms and FinOps\nAutomated testing of infrastructure code\nDesigning or building data platform infrastructure\nConfiguration management (e.g. Ansible)\nExperience in the manufacturing and/or aerospace industry\nUsing AI tools to speed up your work while keeping quality high and your own understanding solid\nManufacturing, aerospace, or other hardware-focused industries\nStart-ups or other fast-paced engineering environments\nWhat We Offer\nCompetitive compensation and stock options\nPrivate Medical & Dental\nCycle to work scheme\nLunchtime catering on site\nAbout Us\nThe mission of Cambridge Aerospace is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe. That risk comes from the air - low-cost drones and cruise missiles now manufactured in colossal volumes by our adversaries, ballistic missiles capable of ending the world as we know it, and a new generation of hypersonic weapons that evade every existing defence.\nWe’re building low-cost interceptors that defeat these threats, and the surveillance systems to detect and target them - at a cost taxpayers can afford, at the pace the threat demands, and with sovereign supply chains that assure delivery.\nWe have immense backing from the world’s best venture funds. We’re one of the fastest growing defence technology companies in history. And we’re hiring the best engineers to prosecute the mission.\nIf you are in the top 1%, willing to work harder than you ever have, build technology better than anyone else, and contribute to the defining challenge of our time, now is the time to join us.\nOur Commitment to Inclusion\nWe’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4179,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-15T01:58:01Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Skilled Worker","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T06:21:15+00:00","sources":["UK Home Office: register of licensed sponsors (workers)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":59,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.593,"p_room":1,"age_days":8,"expected_fill_days":36,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/cambridge-aerospace-principal-platform-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/cambridge-aerospace-principal-platform-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T06:35:28Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":9912,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1966424},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1966424"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcambridge-aerospace-principal-platform-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcambridge-aerospace-principal-platform-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcambridge-aerospace-principal-platform-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/cambridge-aerospace-principal-platform-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcambridge-aerospace-principal-platform-engineer"}]}