AWS Principal Cloud Architect

Salary: £100, per year

• Experience in platform, infrastructure, or software engineering within SaaS environments
• Strong AWS expertise, including EKS, IAM, networking, KMS, RDS, and multi-account architecture
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, and cloud security
• Strong understanding of SRE, observability, incident response, and disaster recovery
• Experience operating within regulated environments such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, or GxP
• Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with hands‑on operational delivery
• AWS Solutions Architect - Professional certification required
• CKA or CKS certification highly desirable

• Own the AWS platform architecture and modernisation roadmap, including migration from a Java monolith to microservices on EKS
• Define standards for containers, runtime environments, observability, tenancy, security, and infrastructure automation
• Lead SRE practices including SLI/SLOs, incident management, DR/BCP planning, post‑mortems, and operational resilience
• Own platform security, secure SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and software supply chain governance
• Drive developer productivity through automation, self‑service tooling, and platform standardisation
• Act as a senior escalation point for critical incidents, outages, and operational issues

• AWS
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• IAM
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Security
• Terraform
• microservices

We are partnering with a growing SaaS business to hire a Principal Platform Architect for a hybrid role with a salary of £80,000-£100,000. This is a hands‑on leadership position in a lean organisation, where we will expect you to shape cloud architecture, modernise a legacy platform into a cloud‑native environment, and provide senior oversight across platform engineering, security, SRE, and CI/CD.

last updated 28 week of 2026