Principal Software Engineer - AWS | Kubernetes | Terraform

• The role: AWS Principal Platform Engineer - Kubernetes | Terraform | Multi-Cloud
• Who : Appvia.io - Cloud, Platform & Software Engineering Consultancy
• Contract : Permanent / Full-time
• Salary: £90k to £120k basic + 10% bonus / 10% shares + excellent benefits
• Location: London (hybrid working: approximately 1 day per week in office or on client site)

Before anything else:

UK work eligibility is a necessity, as the role requires full UK SC security clearance. British Passport or ILR only, with a min. of 5 years in the UK

This isn't a hands-off architecture role; this isn't a people-manager title with a technical veneer. This is a senior technical leader who still gets their hands dirty; shaping cloud strategy with a client's CTO one day, working alongside the engineering team the next. If that's how you operate, read on.

You'll bring:

• Expert AWS platform engineering: designing, building and operating at scale in complex enterprise environments. Not just familiarity, genuine mastery
• Multi-cloud: AWS primary, Azure and GCP alongside it
• Terraform / IaC: you write the standards others follow, not the other way around
• Kubernetes / EKS: in-depth, hands-on, production-scale. You know it inside out
• CI/CD and DevOps: you set the bar across the team and across client engagements
• Enterprise client engagement: you've owned relationships, shaped strategy, and delivered outcomes at senior level in a consultancy environment
• Team leadership and mentoring: you grow engineers, not just manage them
• Pre-sales and bid work: you've contributed to proposals and you understand the commercial side of consultancy delivery

Good to have:

AWS Solutions Architect Professional / AWS Advanced Networking Specialty / CKA / CKSS