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
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!
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