Hybrid Principal Platform Engineer, AWS

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About the role

  • AWS Principal Platform Engineer shaping technical direction in cloud engineering. Guiding teams and influencing best practices for scalability and resilience in cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Play a senior technical leadership role across Appvia’s platform engineering engagements
  • Help customers design, build, and evolve scalable, resilient, and secure cloud platforms
  • Guide teams towards modern DevOps and platform engineering best practices
  • Work closely with engineers, delivery leads, and solution architects
  • Shape technical direction, supporting early-stage solution design
  • Mentor teams as they deliver complex cloud platforms
  • Contribute to Appvia’s wider engineering capability, influencing standards, patterns, and approaches that are reused across multiple customer engagements

Requirements

  • Expert knowledge of continuous integration and deployment practices
  • Ability to collaborate with people of all levels of technical ability
  • Ability to lead and mentor on industry best practices
  • Project Management experience
  • Fantastic people skills, including the ability to motivate a team towards a common goal
  • Bid work and Pre-Sales Engineering experience
  • Proven experience leading and delivering large, complex public cloud projects
  • Extensive experience leading and managing teams, fostering a collaborative culture, and mentoring team members
  • Significant experience engaging with enterprise clients, managing relationships, and ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction
  • Proven commitment to staying up-to-date with the latest trends and contributing to industry knowledge sharing
  • Certification in relevant cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) at an expert/professional level is highly desirable

Benefits

  • Flexible working with core hours of 10-4pm because we know life happens outside of work
  • Hybrid working - only one compulsory office day per month
  • 25 days’ holiday a year, plus bank holidays
  • An additional day off for your birthday
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity to full pay
  • Workplace Nursery Benefit to help working parents
  • Full Private Healthcare cover for you with partners and children covered 50%
  • Death in Service
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Electric Car Scheme
  • Pension plus a salary sacrifice option for even greater savings
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Free hygiene products available in the London office
  • Free therapy through AXA
  • Access to the Headspace App
  • Trained Mental Health First Aiders
  • Learning budget of £1,000 a year
  • Your own MacBook Pro while you work at Appvia
  • Dog friendly office
  • Wear what makes you comfortable
  • Free snacks in the office
  • Pool table & ping pong table
  • Regular team socials, board game nights, industry meetups and more!

Job title

Principal Platform Engineer, AWS

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

£90,000 - £120,000 per year

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

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