Principal AWS Platform Engineer

Shape the Future of Cloud & AI Platforms

We are looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to join a leading enterprise organisation and drive the next evolution of its AWS cloud and AI platform capabilities.

This is a rare opportunity for a highly skilled platform engineering professional to take ownership of platform strategy, architecture, automation, and engineering standards across a modern AWS ecosystem. You'll play a key role in enabling cloud-native development, accelerating AI adoption, and building secure, scalable platforms that empower engineering teams to deliver at speed.

You'll be joining a high-performing technology team working at enterprise scale, leveraging modern cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, and AI technologies to deliver real business outcomes.

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What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of enterprise-scale AWS platform capabilities.
• Define platform architecture, standards, and engineering best practices.
• Build and enhance cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and automation-first principles.
• Drive platform reliability, observability, security, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Enable and support cloud-native application development across engineering teams.
• Champion DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, and Platform Engineering practices.
• Design and implement capabilities that support AI, machine learning, and Generative AI workloads.
• Partner with Architecture, Security, Data, and Engineering leaders to align platform strategy with business objectives.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple delivery teams.

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What We're Looking For

Essential Experience

• Extensive experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.

• Deep AWS expertise across services including:

  • EKS
  • ECS
  • EC2
  • Lambda
  • IAM
  • VPC
  • RDS
  • Route 53
  • S3
  • CloudWatch

• Strong hands-on experience with:

  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Cloud Security
  • Observability and Monitoring
  • Platform Automation

• Proven experience designing and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms.

• Strong stakeholder management and leadership capabilities.

• Ability to influence technical direction and drive engineering excellence.

Highly Desirable

• Experience supporting AI, Machine Learning, or Generative AI platforms.

• Exposure to:

  • Amazon Bedrock
  • SageMaker
  • MLOps
  • Vector Databases
  • AI Governance Frameworks
  • LLM and GenAI Platform Architecture

• Experience with Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

• AWS Professional Certifications.

• Experience operating within large and complex enterprise environments.