Principal AWS Platform Engineer

Principal AWS Platform Engineer

Location: Hybrid London/Remote 2 days per week in London

Permanent

SC CLEARANCE

This role requires SC clearance and in future will require DV clearance. Upon joining Cloudscaler we will undertake SC clearance checks so you must be eligible to pass SC clearance and ideally DV clearance.

About us

We are experts in AWS landing zones cloud risk mitigation and cloud operating models. We are thought leaders working with public and private sector enterprise organisations to help them to unlock the true value of cloud.

We take a structured approach deploying highly resilient and scalable infrastructure and applying a control framework that meets the highest regulatory and industry standards.

We help our customers define cloud operating models that works and establish Cloud Centre of Excellences that ensure best practices in security data controls and operations whilst preventing spiralling costs.

Why you should join us

We care about our people and truly believe that highperforming teams are created through openness collaboration and trust. We ensure that there are opportunities both inside and outside of work to collaborate share ideas and build connections.

We hold quarterly company days and monthly virtual town halls to share company news and share ideas and suggestions. We recognise that everyone brings their own unique skills and experiences so these are opportunities for us to collaborate across all teams and functions to build a truly inclusive culture. We also hold monthly social events for everyone to get to know each other outside of work.

Recognising that everyone brings their own unique skills and experiences our learning and development opportunities are built around you. You can choose whichever learning through whichever vehicle works for you to advance through our transparent career development pathways.

What were looking for

We are looking for Principal AWS Platform Engineers with extensive landing zone knowledge and site reliability best practice. For us this means experience of designing building and operating enterprisescale landing zones within AWS. It also means you need to be able to automate the build of complex AWS services and platforms using Terraform.

We are thought leaders and our Lead Engineers work closely with customer teams so you need to be opinionated about IaC structure and modularisation and the experience and knowledge to define the technical direction and strategy of teams and systems.

What youll be doing

You will often be working with our customers in a CCoE Leadcapacity and as suchwill be working closely with our customers key stakeholders to buildaCloud Centre of Excellence and embed cloud best practice across teams.

• Designing complex multitenant systems aligned to best practice
• Building testing packaging deploying and operating AWS landing zones
• Automating the build of complex AWS Services and Cloud Platforms with IaC
• Packaging services into AMIs Docker containers or Serverless deployments
• Championing infrastructure as code and opinionated about IaC structure and modularisation
• Scoping container/microservices to design Cloud solutions
• Utilising deployment techniques to enable zero downtime
• Mitigating security risks in AWS and supporting a mature Cloud Security Model

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave 5 additional days for training/exams or volunteering
• Travel and accommodation expensed
• Life Assurance
• Long Term Disability cover
• Employee Assist Programme for employee advice and support (including legal and counselling helpline)
• Health Mental Health Wellbeing Financial and Legal support
• 24/7 GP access
• 500 for home office equipment
• Public holiday optout scheme giving you the option to work on public holidays creating the flexibility to enjoy your time off when it suits you
• Individual training and development plans with online training and exam costs covered
• Recruitment referral scheme referral bonus if you introduce us to someone we then hire
• Customer referral scheme referral bonus if you introduce us to a new customer
• Cycle To Work Scheme

If you would like to join us on our adventure please apply!