Principle Cloud Engineer

Principle Cloud Engineer Salary to £65k (neg.) Role can be fully remote, with paid travel to client site (most likely in London) as required. This company is a Workflow & AI Orchestration Specialist. They're on a mission to modernise how public sector organisations manage casework, derive insight from data and deliver citizen services. They operate across two pillars:
Advise and Implement to provide end to end technology solutions that integrate cutting edge orchestration and agentic AI capabilities. They're growing fast and looking for bright, dynamic people to help build their business. NB: to be eligible for this role you must ALREADY hold UK security clearance (SC, DV, eDV)

Role Overview 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, Dev Ops, 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 Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, or Git Lab 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, Open Telemetry) Champion Dev Sec Ops  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, Dev Ops, 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 Cloud Formation) 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 Dev Sec Ops  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: to be eligible for this role you must ALREADY hold UK security clearance (SC, DV, eDV) Profile 29 recruitment