Principal Engineer - DevOps - Remote

Principal Engineer - DevOps - Remote Working

Must have an Active SC Clearance

• Lead engineering strategy and technical roadmaps across multiple engineering teams and suppliers, while remaining closely involved in technical and operational decision-making.
• Provide leadership across AWS cloud infrastructure, DevOps, applications and 24/7 operational services.

Principal Engineer Responsibilities

• Define engineering strategy, technical roadmaps, standards and governance across multiple teams.
• Provide technical assurance across cloud infrastructure, applications, ingest pipelines and AI capabilities.
• Lead the design, implementation and operation of AWS-hosted platforms and services.
• Review and approve solution designs, implementation approaches and significant technical changes.
• Coordinate engineering delivery across platform, development and operational support teams.
• Lead technical decision-making during major incidents, service disruptions and critical operational events.
• Maintain oversight of platform reliability, security, resilience and service performance.
• Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies and delivery constraints.
• Mentor and develop engineers across all grades and manage up to 6-8 direct reports where required.
• Work with Product Managers, Delivery Managers, architects, suppliers and senior stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement, modernisation and engineering capability.
• Participate in 24/7 L3 on-call support where required.

Principal Engineer Skills and Experience

Mandatory

• Strong AWS cloud platform and enterprise cloud architecture experience.
• Excellent DevOps experience
• Must have .net and c# as a minimum

Desirables

• Strong Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, Docker and NGINX experience.
• PostgreSQL experience across EC2 and RDS.
• Strong Linux and Windows administration experience.
• Experience with AWS Transit Gateway, API Gateway, Virtual Desktop, VPN and OpenVPN.
• Elastic, Kibana and GitLab Source Control experience.
• Strong Jenkins, Groovy and CI/CD pipeline design and implementation experience.
• Strong platform observability, monitoring, performance management and troubleshooting experience.
• Experience supporting secure, business-critical services within 24/7 production environments.
• Strong Incident, Change and Problem Management experience, including ServiceNow.
• Proven technical leadership, engineering governance, assurance and risk-management experience.