AWS Principal Platform Engineer - UK Security Clearance eligibility required. (Hiring Immediately)

AWS Principal Platform Engineer - UK Security Clearance required.

Location: London, UK (Hybrid – typically ~1 day per week in office/on-site)
Contract: Permanent, Full-time
Package: £90,000 – £120,000 + 10% Bonus + 10% Shares + Benefits (see more below)

About Us

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.

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

1. Discovery conversation with Talent Acquisition
2. Paired technical assessment with an Engineering team member
3. Technical deep dive with Practice Leadership
4. Competency-focused final interview with Engineering Leadership

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:

• British Passport or ILR
• To have resided in the UK for at least the last 5 years.
• Have no criminal records.
• Have no financial irregularities.

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:

• Expert knowledge of continuous integration and deployment practices
• Ability to collaborate with people of all levels of technical ability
• Ability to lead and mentor on industry best practices
• Project Management experience
• Fantastic people skills, including the ability to motivate a team towards a common goal
• Bid work and Pre-Sales Engineering experience

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with prospective and existing customers to define and execute strategies for cloud and DevOps adoption.
• Educate customers and industry stakeholders on the benefits and best practices of cloud-native technologies.
• Lead large, complex public cloud projects, providing strategic direction and selecting appropriate technologies.
• Manage teams of platform engineers and consultants, fostering a positive and collaborative team culture.
• Engage with enterprise clients to understand their unique challenges and deliver tailored solutions.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and emerging technologies, contributing to industry knowledge sharing through blog posts and videos.

Skills

• Platform Engineering: Mastery of designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and secure platforms.
• Automation: Expertise in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices, automation tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and scripting languages (e.g. Python, Ruby).
• Container Orchestration: In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with Kubernetes and its managed counterparts (EKS, AKS, GKE).
• Public Cloud Expertise: In-depth knowled]]>