Principal Cloud Engineer (AWS)

Principal Cloud Engineer (AWS) - Defence/SC Cleared

Location: We are based in Aldgate, London. Our customers are based across the UK. Circa 2 days per week onsite in London is required, or less frequently for customers outside London.

Salary: £110,000 – £130,000

Defence/SC Clearance Requirements:

Cloudscaler work with highly-secure private defence and government customers on mission-critical programmes of work. This means that SC clearance is required. Upon joining Cloudscaler we will undertake SC clearance checks so you must be eligible to pass SC clearance. In future, DV clearance is likely to be required, so the ability/willingness to pass DV clearance is advantageous but not essential.

About us

We are experts in AWS landing zones, cloud risk mitigation and cloud operating models; thought leaders working with public and private sector enterprise organisations to help them unlock the true value of cloud.

Why you should join us

We care about our people and truly believe that high-performing teams are created through openness, collaboration and trust. We ensure that there are opportunities both inside and outside of work to collaborate, share ideas and build connections.

We recognise that everyone brings their own unique skills and experiences, so we regularly collaborate across all teams and functions, to build a truly inclusive culture, including team socials, quarterly company days, and monthly "town halls".

Recognising that everyone brings their own unique skills and experiences, our learning and development opportunities are bespoke to each individual; helping you to advance through our transparent career development pathways and achieve your career goals.

About the role

Cloudscaler are seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer who will be a thought leader within our engineering practice with extensive knowledge of platform engineering and SRE best practise.

You will be guiding our customers through complex cloud transformations and so will need to be opinionated about cloud and platform best practice.

Key Experience

• Experience leading cross-functional teams, mentoring team members and leading by example

• Hands on experience of working with a wide range of AWS services and an understanding of how to select the right service for a given challenge

• Extensive experience with landing zones, multi-account and multi-tenant environments

• Experience operating a cloud platform at scale, ideally in highly regulated environments

• Thorough understanding of how to design and build secure, scalable, and resilient platforms on AWS

• Thorough understanding of the key security risks that are present when using AWS and how these can be prevented, detected, and remediated

• Building AWS resources using infrastructure as code using Terraform (or CloudFormation)

• Ability to advise on infrastructure as code structure and modularisation

• An understanding of the challenges and priorities of operating services, and how SRE principles can be applied

• Implementing and working with continuous integration / continuous delivery pipelines (moved to required)

• Experience with system design, and the ability to assess trade-offs with design options

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus scheme

• 25 days’ annual leave + 5 additional days for training/exams or volunteering

• Travel and accommodation expensed where eligible in line with our expenses policy

• Life Assurance

• Long Term Disability cover

• Employee Assist Programme for employee advice and support (including legal and counselling helpline)

• Health, Mental Health, Wellbeing, Financial and Legal support

• 24/7 GP access

• Public holiday opt-out scheme giving you the option to work on public holidays creating the flexibility to enjoy your time off when it suits you

• Individual training and development plans with online training and exam costs covered

• Recruitment referral scheme – referral bonus if you introduce us to someone we then hire

• Customer referral scheme – referral bonus if you introduce us to a new customer

• Cycle To Work Scheme

Interview Process

1. Screening call with our Talent Acquisition team

2. 1st Interview - 30 minute remote interview with our hiring team

3. 2nd Interview - 60 minute remote technical interview with members of our engineering team

4. 3rd Interview - 60 minute in person interview with members of our Senior Leadership Team

Cloudscaler are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, parental status, religion or medical history.

If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please let us know when you speak to our Talent Acquisition team or contact [email protected] at the earliest opportunity.