Principal AWS Platform Engineer

3 months ago

London, United Kingdom Appvia Full time

Principal AWS Platform Engineer - Appvia - Security Clearance eligibility required.

Location: London, UK

About Us

At Appvia, we're committed to helping our customers navigate their journey to Cloud and DevOps maturity. As a leading provider in the industry, we offer cutting-edge technologies and services to support our clients' cloud adoption journey.

Our mission is to enable every company to deliver apps in the cloud. We dedicate ourselves to building a cloud infrastructure layer that allows platform engineering teams to manage, monitor and update with ease - at the same time, offering devs the flexibility to deploy their apps in the cloud without a hassle. We are passionate about driving value to our clients and have a desire to make their organisation succeed.

About the role

As a Principal AWS Platform Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in guiding our customers towards cloud and DevOps excellence. You'll leverage your expertise to design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure platforms while driving strategic initiatives to align with customer objectives.

This position offers a great opportunity to technically lead a team of cloud consultants, fostering innovation and excellence in cloud adoption strategies and driving the establishment of Appvia's internal solutions team at an exciting time in our journey.

Interview process - 3 stage

  • Discovery conversation with our Talent Acquisition Manager
  • Technical Interview with the Hiring Manager
  • Leadership Final Interview

Important

You must either hold active SC, or be eligible for SC:

  • To have resided in the UK for at least the last 5 years.
  • Have no criminal records.
  • Have no financial irregularities.

Requirements

About you

You’ll be passionate about new technology and automation, and experienced in leading an Engineering Team in Agile and DevOps best practices. You’ll also be able to talk to us about your:

  • Expert knowledge of continuous integration and deployment practices
  • Ability to collaborate with people of all levels of technical ability
  • Ability to lead and mentor on industry best practices
  • Project Management experience
  • Fantastic people skills, including the ability to motivate a team towards a common goal
  • Bid work and Pre-Sales Engineering experience

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with prospective and existing customers to define and execute strategies for cloud and DevOps adoption.
  • Educate customers and industry stakeholders on the benefits and best practices of cloud-native technologies.
  • Lead large, complex public cloud projects, providing strategic direction and selecting appropriate technologies.
  • Manage teams of platform engineers and consultants, fostering a positive and collaborative team culture.
  • Engage with enterprise clients to understand their unique challenges and deliver tailored solutions.
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and emerging technologies, contributing to industry knowledge sharing through blog posts and videos.

Skills

  • Platform Engineering: Mastery of designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and secure platforms.
  • Automation: Expertise in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices, automation tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and scripting languages (e.g. Python, Ruby).
  • Container Orchestration: In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with Kubernetes and its managed counterparts (EKS, AKS, GKE).
  • Public Cloud Expertise: In-depth knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP services, architecture, and best practices.
  • DevOps Mastery: Excellent knowledge of CI/CD, containerisation, and serverless technologies.

Experience

  • Leadership on Large Projects: Proven experience leading and delivering large, complex public cloud projects.
  • Team Management and Mentorship: Extensive experience leading and managing teams, fostering a collaborative culture, and mentoring team members.
  • Enterprise Customer-Facing Experience: Significant experience engaging with enterprise clients, managing relationships, and ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction.
  • Continuous Learning and Industry Involvement: Proven commitment to staying up-to-date with the latest trends and contributing to industry knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

  • Certification in relevant cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) at an expert/professional level is highly desirable, e.g.:
    • AWS Solutions Architect Professional
  • Certification in Kubernetes administration is desirable:
    • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
    • Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKSS)

Benefits

Why join Appvia?

We are a self-funded, London based startup; providing businesses with a fast and secure way to deploy containerised applications into the cloud.

We are on a mission to enable organisations to make cloud-based software delivery simple and efficient, whilst having the insights into costs, security and cadence. As a company that holds customers at the heart of everything we do, we are looking for candidates that want to make a real change to how Dev and Ops is working in the industry.

With us our customers, like the UK’s Home Office & Bank of England, are harnessing cloud-native technologies, limiting the challenges of infrastructure management and rapidly delivering digital products.

What’s on offer?

⚖️ Work-life balance

  • Flexible working with core hours of 10-4pm because we know life happens outside of work
  • An additional day off for your birthday
  • Hybrid working
  • 25 days’ holiday a year, plus bank holidays

 For your well-being

  • Full Private Healthcare cover for you with partners and children covered 50%
  • Death in Service
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Pension plus a salary sacrifice option for even greater savings
  • Employee Assistance Programme

 Mental health support

  • Free therapy through AXA
  • Access to the Headspace App
  • Trained Mental Health First Aiders

Other fun perks

  • Learning budget of £1,000 a year
  • Your own MacBook Pro while you work at Appvia
  • Dog friendly office
  • Wear what makes you comfortable
  • Free snacks in the office
  • Regular team socials, board game nights, industry meetups and more
  • Pool table & ping pong table

But don’t just take our word for it, you can check out what our Appvians say about us on Glassdoor and by following us on LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage, respect, and recognise diversity of thought and background throughout the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity, and disability status.

Note: While all roles are active and approved at the time of posting, the dynamic nature of our start-up means some applications may be processed to pipeline talent for future opportunities rather than current openings. We will strive to keep you informed of any changes to the status of your application.

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