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, delivering safe, effective, and enabling solutions for both commercial and defence applications.

What We Offer

• Annual Leave – Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing Day - An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
• Private Healthcare – Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
• Family Leave – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Christmas Leave – A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
• Professional Development – Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Pension Contribution – pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice
• Flexible Working – Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work–life balance.
• Inclusive Culture – A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.

Role Overview

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 are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know.

• Please note that all offers of employment are conditional and subject to satisfactory DBS, driving licence and reference checks. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify candidates from employment. We will consider criminal record information alongside the wider range of evidence gathered at the application, interview, and pre-employment checking stages.

Due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to respond to everyone. If you are shortlisted, we will aim to contact you within 14 days of your application or the closing date (if stated). We may retain your details for future suitable roles unless you advise us otherwise.

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