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Your career here is about believing in yourself and seizing new opportunities and challenges. It’s about expanding your skills and expertise in your current role and preparing yourself for future advancements. That’s why we encourage you to take every opportunity to further your career within our great global team.

The Opportunity

We aremodernisingthe core platforms that underpin our Managed Services business and building an Azure-first,multicloudplatform that can scale across teams,clientsand services.

This is not a role for someone who has onlyoperatedwithinan already mature platform. We are looking for a Principal Platform Engineer who has helped design, build,moderniseor significantly uplift cloud environments from the ground up, including the standards, guardrails,automationand operational patterns other teams depend on.

This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports, but significant technical influence. You will set technical direction, define reusable patterns, guide engineeringteamsand create golden paths that allow teams to deliver quickly,safelyand consistently.

This role suits someone who stays hands-on, thinks in platforms, and is comfortable being the person teams turn to when the architecture gets complex

What You'll Do

- Lead the technical architecture of our Azure-first, multi cloud platform.
- Design and modernize platform foundations, including landing zones, identity, networking, security, governance, observability, automation and operational controls.
- Define standards, reusable patterns and guardrails that engineering teams can build on.
- Create golden paths and self-service capabilities that reduce ticket dependency and improve delivery speed.
- Set direction for infrastructure as code and CI/CD, with Terraform as a primary tool.




- Embed governance,securityand cost controls as code, aligned to the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
- Improve reliability through observability, backup, disaster recovery, resiliencepatternsand clear RPO/RTO expectations.
- Work with operations and service management teams to ensure platforms are supportable,observableand operationally ready.
- Drive automation-first platform engineering throughIaC,policy ascode, runbookautomationand event-driven remediation.
- Partner with automation and AI teams to ensure the platform can support future AI-enabled and agentic workflows safely.
- Influence technical decisions across multiple teams without relying on formalauthority.

What we’re looking for

- Proven experience building,modernizingor significantly uplifting cloud platform environments, not justoperatingwithin existing platforms.
- Deep knowledge of Azure landing zones, management groups, subscriptions, networking, Entra ID, governance, policy, security, logging,monitoringand operational controls.
- Strong infrastructure as code experience, ideally with Terraform.
- Practical experience with CI/CD, Git-basedworkflowsand automation.
- Robust understanding of cloud security, identity,secretsmanagement, segmentation,complianceand secure-by-default design.
- Experience with observability, reliability engineering, backup, disasterrecoveryand operational readiness.
- Good understanding of cloud cost management, tagging, policycontrolsand FinOps principles.
- Working knowledge of at least one other cloud platform, such as AWS or GCP.
- Ability to influence architects, engineers, security teams,operationsand product teams through strong technical judgement.

Nice-to-Have

- Experience in managed services, technology services,outsourcingor enterprise platform environments.




- Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Bicep, PowerShell, Python, Kubernetes, AKS, containerplatformsor API gateways.
- Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, Datadog, Splunk or similar tooling.
- Experience with ServiceNow, ITSM integration, operational readiness, change governance or service transition.
- Experience building internal developer platforms or platform-as-a-product capabilities.
- Experience with automation platforms such as Ansible, Azure Automation, ServiceNow Flow Designer, Logic Apps,Rundeckor similar.
- Experience building platforms that enable automation, AIOps, self-healing, event-drivenremediationor agentic workflows.

You will thrive in this role if you:

- care about making the right thing the easy thing
- can balance speed, security,reliabilityand cost
- like building reusable patterns rather than one-off solutions
- are comfortable challenging technical decisions constructively
- can influence teams without needing direct authority
- stay hands-on while thinking strategically
- measure success by adoption,reliabilityand reduced friction

Why Join

You will help shape the platform that engineering and delivery teams rely on every day.

This is an opportunity to set technical direction, build solid cloud platform foundations, create better developer experiences, and make cloud delivery faster,saferand more consistent.

The goal is simple: build an Azure-first, automated, secure,observableand self-service platform that enables modern Managed Services delivery today and future AI-enabled operations tomorrow.

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