About this role
Salary: £70,000 - 70,000 per year
Requirements
- Experience in SRE, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure engineering roles
- Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP environments
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
- Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Strong experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, Helm, or CloudFormation
- Working knowledge of event-driven systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar
- Experience managing and tuning databases such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB
- Familiarity with Keycloak or equivalent identity and access management platforms
- Strong scripting or automation experience; Python, Bash, or Go preferred
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools for observability
- Understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security controls
- Desirable: experience operating production workloads in the UK public sector or regulated environments
- Desirable: familiarity with Camunda or other process orchestration platforms
- Desirable: experience implementing DevSecOps frameworks or security automation tools
- Desirable: understanding of zero-trust networking and secure-by-design principles
- Desirable: familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd
- Desirable: exposure to agentic AI or workflow automation environments
- Eligibility for DV clearance, including at least 10 years of continuous UK residency
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate resilient cloud infrastructure, with AWS as the essential platform
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
- Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests
- Build and manage event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka or similar messaging systems
- Operate and maintain databases and data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB
- Configure and support identity and access management solutions such as Keycloak
- Monitor system health, performance, and capacity using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and OpenTelemetry
- Champion DevSecOps practices by embedding security and compliance throughout delivery
- Automate deployment, scaling, and recovery to improve reliability and reduce manual work
- Support development teams with environment configuration, secrets management, and container orchestration
- Participate in incident management and root-cause analysis to improve system resilience
- Contribute to internal platform frameworks, templates, and automation accelerators
Technologies
- Agentic AI
- AI
- AWS
- Azure
- Bash
- Camunda
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevSecOps
- DevOps
- Docker
- ELK
- ElasticSearch
- GCP
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Grafana
- Helm
- Incident Management
- Istio
- Support
- Jenkins
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Load Balancing
- MongoDB
- OpenTelemetry
- PostgreSQL
- Prometheus
- Python
- RabbitMQ
- Security
- Terraform
More
We are a Workflow and AI Orchestration Specialist on a mission to modernise how public-sector organisations manage casework, derive insight from data, and deliver citizen services. Across our Advise and Implement pillars, we provide end-to-end technology solutions incorporating orchestration and agentic AI. We are growing quickly and looking for people to help build our business. This Principal Cloud Engineer will join our growing platform and delivery teams, supporting secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure for critical public-sector services. The role combines cloud engineering, DevOps, and automation, with a focus on reliability, observability, scalability, and secure-by-design delivery. The salary is up to £65,000, negotiable. The role can be fully remote, with paid travel to client sites as required, most likely in London.
last updated 46 week of 2026