Platform Engineer

Salary: £40,000-£60,000 DOE

Full Time

Permanent

Who we are: SubSea Craft is a fast growing, privately-funded, UK-based innovative maritime technology company specialising in next-generation, high-performance watercraft and systems. We operate at the intersection of advanced engineering, cutting-edge design, and user-centric innovation, aiming to deliver safe, effective, and intuitive solutions for both commercial and defence applications.

What We Offer

• Private Healthcare with optional family cover
• Life Assurance (4 x salary)
• Critical Illness Cover
• Unlimited Paid Holiday
• Ongoing professional development and training
• Pension contribution
• Flexible Working
• A culture of diversity and innovative thinking
  
  

We're looking for a talented Platform Engineer to help build the backbone of our software development and deployment infrastructure for cutting-edge marine systems. In this role, you'll design and manage robust CI/CD pipelines, create internal tools to streamline development, and support the integration of software with both simulated and physical test environments. If you're passionate about automation, reliability, and working at the intersection of software and hardware, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities Will Include

• Development and management of CI/CD pipelines that allow us to develop our software quickly with fast feedback loops
• Writing tools for internal use to allow improved automation of development practices
• Software deployment, testing and validation
• Hardware bench testing, configuration and integration with CI/CD pipelines where appropriate
• Deploying physical servers when appropriate
• Working flexibly with the software and engineering teams to ensure software and documentation are delivered on time
  
  

Required

Qualifications and Experience:

• Degree level qualification in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent experience
• 2+ years working with Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) systems
• CI/CD pipeline development (GitLab preferable)
• Containerisation (Podman/Docker)
• Ubuntu/Debian Linux distributions (Or transferable knowledge from other distributions)
• Python 3
• Fast learner and a team player
  
  

Desirable

• Modern C++ (14 or later preferable)
• Automation tooling and scripting (e.g. Ansible, Bash)
• Mobile robotics projects (e.g. ROS2)
• Virtualisation (e.g. vSphere)
• Orchestration tools (e.g. Kubernetes)
• Networking and Security
• Web Server Deployment (e.g. Apache/NGINX)
• An understanding of basic electronics
• Agile Methodology
• Proactive individual with strong commitment and self-motivation
  
  

Note: Due to the nature of work undertaken at SubSea Craft, the selected candidate must be capable of meeting the security requirements of the position, which would include as a minimum existing right to live and work in the UK, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), with UK National security clearance required for certain roles.*

Values: Our people are our greatest asset; we continually strive to provide an excellent working environment to enable our team to do their best work. We have an agile professional workforce: we are founded on the belief that our people are valued, and our business is trusted, inclusive and commercially-adept.

What We Expect From You

• Teamwork, mutual respect and collaboration
• Initiative and independent working
• Honesty and integrity
• Business and commercial awareness
• Agility, adaptability and continuous development
  
  

We regret that due to the high volume of applications we are unable to acknowledge every application. Please bear in mind that if you are selected for an interview we will aim to contact you within 14 days of your application or the closing date (if stated). However, if we think that your skills and qualifications may be suitable for other similar positions we may hold your details on our database and contact you in the future. Please let us know if you do not wish us to keep your details on file.

• Please note that DBS, Driving Licence and reference checks will be carried out and all offers of employment are subject to meeting our requirements.