Principal Platform Engineer

You've mastered the art of cloud engineering and automation. Now, it's time to lead the strategy and innovation for one of the world's most demanding digital platforms.

This is your opportunity to drive transformation and secure core infrastructure systems that operate at an unprecedented scale, impacting hundreds of millions of users daily. We're looking for a leader who can define and implement technical designs according to cloud best practices and ensure their correct deployment.

As the Principal Platform Engineer, you won't just maintain systems; you'll be building the foundation for the future. You will take ownership of mission critical infrastructure, lead strategic initiatives, and mentor a team of engineers, acting as a champion for agile delivery automation and consistent Cloud deployment. This role is for the bold and relentless problem solvers who thrive in technically challenging projects and high stakes environments.

This is a high energy role focused on building fast, pushing boundaries, and leveraging leading edge technologies like open source, continuous integration/delivery, and modern software architectures.

With millions relying on their platform daily, we need a top tier engineer to drive innovation, scale infrastructure, and ensure rock solid reliability. Expect the autonomy and responsibility to leave your mark on a global scale.

Your Impact

• Define and Drive Strategy: Lead the strategy and innovation to support and improve business capabilities, processes, and applications in the Cloud.

• Architect Cloud Solutions: Define and maintain technical designs according to cloud best practices and ensure they are deployed correctly in the Cloud environment.

• Lead Engineering Evolution: Architect, build, and lead the evolution of CI/CD pipelines and the underlying infrastructure.

• Champion Modern Architectures: Drive the use of concepts that go beyond IaaS, including PaaS, SaaS, Microservices, Containers, and Serverless.

• Optimise Performance & Cost: Consistently focus on optimising automation and maintaining a strong understanding of the cost drivers of cloud services.

• Elevate Observability: Implement and enhance modern application and infrastructure management, monitoring, and logging systems, specifically utilising technologies like Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.

What We're Looking For;

You should bring a broad range of experience in modern cloud stacks and a passion for developing new technical skills.