AWS Principal Platform Engineer - UK Security Clearance eligibility required.
Appvia · London, England, United Kingdom ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Contract
- Category
- Devops
- Experience
- 5+ years
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Contract: Permanent, Full-time
Package: £90,000 – £120,000 + 10% Bonus + 10% Shares + Benefits (see more below)
At Appvia, we help organisations navigate their journey to Cloud and DevOps maturity. We are a specialist cloud and platform engineering consultancy and product house, delivering modern cloud platforms that enable teams to build, deploy, and operate software securely and efficiently.
Our mission is to enable every organisation to deliver applications confidently in the cloud. We focus on building strong platform foundations, combining automation, governance, and developer enablement, so engineering teams can move faster without compromising on reliability or security.
We work across public and private sector customers, supporting large-scale transformation programmes and long-term platform evolution.
About the Role
As an AWS Principal Platform Engineer, you will play a senior technical leadership role across Appvia’s platform engineering engagements. You will help customers design, build, and evolve scalable, resilient, and secure cloud platforms, while guiding teams towards modern DevOps and platform engineering best practices.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys operating at the intersection of engineering, architecture, and consultancy. You will work closely with engineers, delivery leads, and solution architects, shaping technical direction, supporting early-stage solution design, and mentoring teams as they deliver complex cloud platforms.
You will also contribute to Appvia’s wider engineering capability, influencing standards, patterns, and approaches that are reused across multiple customer engagements.
Interview Process - 4 Stage
Important
As a condition of employment, all successful candidates are required to complete Appvia's standard pre-employment checks, including right-to-work verification and reference checks, and to agree to Appvia's confidentiality and data handling policies as part of their employment terms. Screening for this role is carried out in line with UK Government vetting standards and Appvia's Information Security Management System.
You must either hold active SC, or be eligible for SC:
Requirements
About you
You’ll be passionate about new technology and automation, and experienced in leading an Engineering Team in Agile and DevOps best practices. You’ll also be able to talk to us about your:
Responsibilities
Skills
Experience
Qualifications
Benefits
Why join Appvia?
We are a self-funded, London based startup; providing businesses with a fast and secure way to deploy containerised applications into the cloud.
We are on a mission to enable organisations to make cloud-based software delivery simple and efficient, whilst having the insights into costs, security and cadence. As a company that holds customers at the heart of everything we do, we are looking for candidates that want to make a real change to how Dev and Ops is working in the industry.
With us our customers, like the UK’s Home Office & Bank of England, are harnessing cloud-native technologies, limiting the challenges of infrastructure management and rapidly delivering digital products.
What’s on offer?
⚖️ Work-life balance
💚 For your well-being
🧠 Mental health support
😃 Other fun perks
But don’t just take our word for it, you can check out what our Appvians say about us on Glassdoor and by following us on LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage, respect, and recognise diversity of thought and background throughout the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity, and disability status.
Note: While all roles are active and approved at the time of posting, the dynamic nature of our start-up means some applications may be processed to pipeline talent for future opportunities rather than current openings. We will strive to keep you informed of any changes to the status of your application.
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