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About the Role

The Principal Platform Engineer will provide technical leadership in shaping, evolving, and scaling clients' cloud platforms. The role will establish robust, reusable platform capabilities and self-service solutions to enable engineering teams to deliver software faster, more reliably, and with a consistently high developer experience. The engineer will operate across architecture, engineering, reliability, automation, and developer enablement, influencing technical strategy while remaining hands-on in design and delivery.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for an AWS cloud platform.
Design and build scalable, secure, resilient, and reusable platform capabilities.
Develop self-service tooling and services that abstract operational complexity and improve developer productivity.
Drive automation across infrastructure, application delivery, operational processes, and platform management.
Establish and promote platform standards, engineering patterns, and best practices across engineering teams.
Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and operational efficiency of the platform.
Identify opportunities to reduce engineering friction, eliminate repetitive work, and accelerate software delivery.
Establish engineering principles and guardrails that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining appropriate levels of security, reliability, and governance.
Lead technically complex platform initiatives from discovery and architectural design through implementation and operational adoption.
Influence engineering teams and senior stakeholders on platform strategy, architectural decisions, and technology choices.
Mentor and develop engineers, raising engineering capability and promoting strong platform engineering practices.
Champion a culture of automation, ownership, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

Requirements

Significant experience in Platform Engineering.
Experience designing and operating internal developer platforms at scale.
Experience building reusable platform services, tooling, and self-service capabilities.
Experience applying platform-as-a-product principles to improve developer experience.
Experience establishing standards and paved-road approaches that enable engineering teams to work independently.
Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud-native architectures.
Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, identity, and security.
Experience making architectural trade-offs across reliability, scalability, performance, cost, and developer experience.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automated cloud provisioning.
Experience with CI/CD and automated software delivery.
Experience with automation of operational processes and platform lifecycle management.
Experience establishing repeatable, standardised engineering workflows.
Experience designing platforms for resilience, fault tolerance, observability, and operational excellence.
Experience applying SRE principles and practices to improve availability and reduce operational risk.
Experience with performance analysis, capacity planning, scalability engineering, and proactive reliability improvement.
Experience establishing meaningful service-level objectives, monitoring, alerting, and operational practices.
Experience providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams or a wider engineering organisation.
Experience influencing architecture and technical direction without relying solely on organisational authority.
Experience leading complex technical initiatives and driving decisions through ambiguity.
Experience mentoring senior and developing engineers and creating a culture of knowledge sharing and technical excellence.

Skills

Platform Engineering
Internal Developer Platforms
Cloud-Native Architecture
Cloud Infrastructure
Distributed Systems
Networking
Identity Management
Security
Infrastructure as Code
Automated Cloud Provisioning
CI/CD
Automated Software Delivery
SRE Principles
Observability
Technical Leadership
Mentoring

Location

UK
Europe

Work Type

Blended Working
Full-time

Experience Level

Principal

Benefits

Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people’s lives.
A “Blended Working” model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.
A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self.
An annual budget for training and upskilling, including allocated days off so you don’t have to study in your own free time.
Monthly and quarterly team socials - on us - ranging from after work drinks, to driving experience days with your fellow club members.
A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself.

About the Company

AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap.
We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.
We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client.
We do this through close relationships with our offices (or ‘Clubs’) so that our partners are always prioritised by a regional team close to them.
This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014.
Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.
Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.
We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND.
We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving.

Equal Opportunity

At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities.
We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.
We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.