Job Description
Principal Cloud Architect | Hybrid | £80,000-£100,000
About the Role:
We're partnering with a growing SaaS business to hire a Principal Platform Architect to own the design, security, reliability, and operational management of their AWS platform.
This is a hands-on leadership role in a lean organisation where you'll shape cloud architecture, modernise a legacy platform into a cloud-native environment, and provide senior oversight across platform engineering, security, SRE, CI/CD.
Key Responsibilities:
* Own the AWS platform architecture and modernisation roadmap, including migration from a Java monolith to microservices on EKS.
* Define standards for containers, runtime environments, observability, tenancy, security, and infrastructure automation.
* Lead SRE practices including SLI/SLOs, incident management, DR/BCP planning, post-mortems, and operational resilience.
* Own platform security, secure SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and software supply chain governance.
* Drive developer productivity through automation, self-service tooling, and platform standardisation.
* Act as a senior escalation point for critical incidents, outages, and operational issues.
About You:
* Experience within a platform, infrastructure, or software engineering within SaaS environments.
* Strong AWS expertise including EKS, IAM, networking, KMS, RDS, and multi-account architecture.
* Hands-on Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, and cloud security experience.
* Strong understanding of SRE, observability, incident response, and disaster recovery.
* Experience operating within regulated environments such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, or GxP.
* Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with hands-on operational delivery.
* AWS Solutions Architect - Professional certification required.
* CKA or CKS certification highly desirable.
Principal Cloud Architect | Hybrid | £80,000-£100,000
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