Principal Platform Engineer

Role: Principal Platform Engineer Location: London, United Kingdom (Hybrid - Minimum 1 Day Per Week in Office)Employment Type: Full-timeSalary: £97,480 - £121,850 + 20% Flexible Benefits PackageAre you an experienced Principal Engineer with a passion for building and operating large-scale distributed systems and database platforms? We''re looking for a hands-on technical leader to help shape the future of our platform engineering capability. This is an opportunity to lead complex engineering initiatives, define technical strategy, and act as a subject matter expert across AWS infrastructure, distributed databases, Terraform and cloud-native platform services. You''ll work closely with architects, engineers and senior stakeholders to design resilient, scalable and secure platform solutions while mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices across the organisation. What You''ll DoLead the design and engineering of secure, scalable and highly available cloud platformsBuild and manage AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)Design, deploy and operate distributed systems and persistence platformsProvide technical leadership and architectural guidance across multiple engineering teamsDefine engineering standards, platform roadmaps and best practicesDrive automation, resilience, observability and operational excellence initiativesSupport and mentor engineers through code reviews, coaching and technical leadershipCollaborate with architects and ..... full job details .....