Principal Engineer

Role: Principal Engineer – Cloud Platform

Job Type: Permanent

Location: London Paddington, Hybrid

Ready to utilise your knowledge to lead the design and architecture of cloud-based solutions?

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to build a strong performing team, encouraging best practices in Azure administration, development, and DevOps processes?

Make a meaningful impact as a Principal Engineer – Cloud Platform

Careers at TCS: It means more

TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

• Be part of an exciting team where you will be challenged every day.
• Work closely with the range of teams within the business to bring products to life.
• Work with customers and identify opportunities to support their strategy and improve their processes across functions.

The Role:

As a Principal Engineer – Cloud Platform , you will be part of the Cloud Platform Engineering team and drive the solution/engineering practices. You will play a key role in leading the engineering forum within cloud portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and architecture of cloud-based solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals, scalability, security, and performance requirements.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) principles using tools like Terraform, or Azure Resource Manager to automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources.
• Deploy and configure cloud services and platforms, such as Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), based on best practices and architectural principles.
• Implement security controls, identity, and access management (IAM), encryption, and compliance standards to ensure the security and integrity of cloud environments.
• Optimise cloud infrastructure and services for performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness, utilising monitoring, logging, and analytics tools to identify and address performance bottlenecks.
• Design and implement disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) strategies to ensure high availability and data protection in multi-cloud environments.
• Provide expertise in IT operations areas, such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, and governance, ensuring these areas align with the overall Azure Platform strategy.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, encouraging best practices in Azure administration, development, and DevOps processes.
• Build a strong performing team, set clear expectations and goals based on OKRs and KPls. Manage execution, stay within budget, and proactively solve issues.
• Explore industry best practices and influence application of the most relevant and effective solutions in the activities performed day to day.
• Improve the Reliability of system in production and fixe issues by digging into code, identify the issue and contribute a fix back to the code base.
• Be an Escalation point for severity incident.
• Contribute to the tool chain and shared stack managed by orchestras and fellowships and more generally take an active role in these engineering communities.

Your Profile:

Technical key skills/knowledge/experiences:

Cloud Platforms Mastery:

• Proficiency in one or more cloud platforms Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• In-depth understanding of cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, databases, and security.
• Ability to architect scalable and resilient cloud solutions using native cloud services and best practices.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

• Expertise in infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, and Azure Resource Manager.
• Experience designing and implementing IaC templates for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
• Knowledge of configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.

Containerization and Orchestration:

• Strong understanding of containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Experience deploying and managing containerized applications in production environments.
• Knowledge of container networking, storage, and security best practices.
• Experience in implementing Kubernetes management fleet such as Anthos or Tanzu or Arc.

Platform Engineering Principles:

• Proficiency in designing and building scalable, reliable, and secure platform components.
• Experience with platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings and building developer-friendly platforms.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture, service mesh, and API management principles.

DevOps and CI/CD:

• Deep understanding of DevOps practices and principles, including continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines automation using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI.
• Ability to implement infrastructure testing, deployment automation, and monitoring solutions.

Security and Compliance:

• Knowledge of cloud security best practices, identity, and access management (IAM), encryption, and data protection.
• Experience implementing security controls, compliance standards, and security monitoring in cloud environments.
• Understanding of regulatory compliance requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-CIS.

Distributed Systems and Networking:

• Understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, and eventual consistency.
• Knowledge of networking concepts, including virtual networks, subnets, routing, and firewall configurations.
• Experience with cloud-native networking solutions such as VNet peering, VPN, and SD-WAN.

Scripting and Programming:

• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation and tooling.
• Experience with software development using languages like Java, Go, or Python.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable code and contribute to infrastructure-as-code repositories.

Rewards & Benefits:

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

Diversity, Inclusion & Wellbeing

At TCS, we believe in building and sustaining a culture of equity and belonging where everyone can thrive. Our diversity motto is ‘Inclusion without Exception’.

You’ll find a welcoming culture and many internal volunteering and social networks to join. Our diversity, inclusion and social activities include LGBTQ+ and mental health networks, as well as health and wellness initiatives and sports events (we even sponsor the London Marathon).

We are open to all and treat applications equally, regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, or beliefs.

If you are an applicant who needs accommodation due to a disability to complete an employment application, or during any phase of the hiring process, please contact us at arpithpaul.d@tcs.com with the subject line: “Disability Accommodation Request”.

Due to a high volume of applications, we will be unable to contact each applicant individually on the status of their application. If you have not received a direct response within 30 days, then it should be deemed unsuccessful on this occasion.

Join us and do more of what matters. Apply online now.