Principle Cloud Engineer

Principle Cloud Engineer

• Salary to £65k (neg.)
• Hybrid working - flexible working between their London office, client offices and your home location.

This company is a Workflow & AI Orchestration Specialist. They’re on a mission to modernise how public sector organisations manage casework, derive insight from data and deliver citizen services.

They operate across two pillars: Advise and Implement to provide end to end technology solutions that integrate cutting edge orchestration and agentic AI capabilities. They’re growing fast and looking for bright, dynamic people to help build their business.

NB: to be eligible for this role you must already hold UK security clearance (SC, DV, eDV)

Role Overview

They’re looking for an AWS savvy Principal Cloud Engineer to join their growing platform and delivery teams. You’ll help design, build, and operate reliable, secure, and performant infrastructure that underpins critical public-sector services.

You’ll combine your background in AWS, DevOps, cloud engineering, and automation with a focus on reliability, observability, and scalability. You’ll also work with event driven technologies, identity and access management, and data platforms, ensuring their orchestration solutions are resilient, secure, and future-ready.

This is an exciting opportunity for an engineer who thrives on solving complex infrastructure and automation challenges, automating everything, and shaping secure-by-design delivery environments.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate resilient cloud infrastructure (AWS essential)

Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI

Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests

Build and manage event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka or similar messaging systems

Operate and maintain databases and data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB

Configure and support identity and access management (IdAM) solutions such as Keycloak

Monitor system health, performance, and capacity using modern observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry)

Champion DevSecOps practices, embedding security and compliance into every stage of delivery

Automate deployment, scaling, and recovery processes to improve reliability and reduce manual toil

Support development teams with environment configuration, secrets management, and container orchestration

Participate in incident management and root-cause analysis to continuously improve system resilience

Contribute to internal platform frameworks, templates, and automation accelerators

Essential

Experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering roles

Strong knowledge of AWS

Azure, or GCP environments

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration

Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, or CloudFormation)

Working knowledge of event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar)

Experience managing and tuning databases (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB)

Familiarity with Keycloak or equivalent identity and access management (IdAM) platforms

Strong scripting or automation experience (Python, Bash, or Go preferred)

Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools for observability

Understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security controls

Desirable

Experience operating production workloads in the UK public sector or regulated environments

Familiarity with Camunda or other process orchestration platforms

Experience implementing DevSecOps frameworks or security automation tools

Understanding of zero-trust networking and secure-by-design principles

Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g. Istio, Linkerd)

Exposure to agentic AI or workflow automation environments

NB: to be eligible for this role you must already hold UK security clearance (SC, DV, eDV)

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