Recruitment Agency: Profile 29
Location: Role can be fully remote, with paid travel to client site (most likely in London) as required.
Working hours: full-time
Salary: £50,000 - £70,000 per annum
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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: Please only apply if you are eligible for SC and DV clearance (i.e. you have min 10 years continuous UK residency and are a sole (not dual) British national).
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