IT & Software

Principal Platform Engineer (AWS, Azure, Terraforms, Kubernetes)

Fourth

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will lead scalable, highly available infrastructure initiatives as part of Fourth’s global SRE/Platform Engineering effort. You will drive cloud adoption (Azure), standardize patterns, and mentor teams to deliver low-maintenance, automated infrastructure. You’ll collaborate with architecture, product, and development squads to migrate products to cloud and accelerate reliability. This is a hands-on, strategic position with a strong focus on incident response, automation, and documentation.

Pay / Benefits
  • Holidays (25 basic, up to 30 with service/birthday off)
  • Flexible and hybrid working
  • Wellness activities and gym discounts
  • Laptop and equipment provided
  • Healthcare expense claim tools
  • Opportunities for certifications and career growth and meetups
Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with Architecture, Product Owners and development teams to define cloud migration needs and requirements
  • Design and implement scalable, highly available, resilient infrastructure to standards
  • Enhance tooling for monitoring, alerting, incident management, and automation
  • Develop and maintain thorough documentation for infrastructure and processes
  • Lead incident management, rapid recovery, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
  • Identify strategies to future-proof infrastructure for growth and demand
  • Utilize AI tools as a force multiplier and promote adoption across the team
  • Mentor colleagues and promote best practices in the organization
Key requirements
  • Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or similar with mentoring exposure
  • Proven track record designing and managing large-scale, highly available infrastructure
  • Hands-on with Terraform, Configuration Management (Chef preferred; Ansible or Puppet also acceptable), Kubernetes (cloud-based)
  • Extensive cloud experience (Azure and AWS)
  • Programming/scripting skills and OOP principles
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Excellent communication skills for technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities
  • Experience in Agile or Kanban
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
  • Excellent communication
  • Team player
  • Mentoring and leadership
  • Terraform
  • Chef (preferable) / Ansible / Puppet
  • Kubernetes (cloud-based)

Reference: WJ-747_31184373

Apply now

More jobs

This role is listed on GigBlows for discovery and search. Hiring decisions and applications are handled by the employer or their chosen application system.