Freelance remote job Principal Engineer - DevOps - Remote

Principal Engineer - DevOps - Remote Working

Must have an Active SC Clearance

- Lead engineering strategy and technical roadmaps across multiple engineering teams and suppliers, while remaining closely involved in technical and operational decision-making.
- Provide leadership across AWS cloud infrastructure, DevOps, applications and 24/7 operational services.

Principal Engineer Responsibilities

- Define engineering strategy, technical roadmaps, standards and governance across multiple teams.
- Provide technical assurance across cloud infrastructure, applications, ingest pipelines and AI capabilities.
- Lead the design, implementation and operation of AWS-hosted platforms and services.
- Review and approve solution designs, implementation approaches and significant technical changes.
- Coordinate engineering delivery across platform, development and operational support teams.
- Lead technical decision-making during major incidents, service disruptions and critical operational events.
- Maintain oversight of platform reliability, security, resilience and service performance.
- Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies and delivery constraints.
- Mentor and develop engineers across all grades and manage up to 6-8 direct reports where required.
- Work with Product Managers, Delivery Managers, architects, suppliers and senior stakeholders.
- Drive continuous improvement, modernisation and engineering capability.
- Participate in 24/7 L3 on-call support where required.

Principal Engineer Skills and Experience

Mandatory

- Strong AWS cloud platform and enterprise cloud architecture experience.
- Excellent DevOps experience
- Must have .net and c# as a minimum

Desirables

- Strong Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, Docker and NGINX experience.
- PostgreSQL experience across EC2 and RDS.
- Strong Linux and Windows administration experience.
- Experience with AWS Transit Gateway, API Gateway, Virtual Desktop, VPN and OpenVPN.
- Elastic, Kibana and GitLab Source Control experience.
- Strong Jenkins, Groovy and CI/CD pipeline design and implementation experience.
- Strong platform observability, monitoring, performance management and troubleshooting experience.
- Experience supporting secure, business-critical services within 24/7 production environments.
- Strong Incident, Change and Problem Management experience, including ServiceNow.
- Proven technical leadership, engineering governance, assurance and risk-management experience.
- Experience operating within Agile and DevOps delivery models.
- C#, .NET, Entity Framework, JavaScript, React, Vue.js, WPF, REST APIs and Microservices experience would be advantageous.
- AWS SageMaker, LLM integrations, AI-assisted analytics or Python data tooling experience would be beneficial.
- Secure-by-design, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity experience would be advantageous.
- Experience supporting COTS or analytical platforms within government, policing, national security or highly regulated environments would be beneficial.

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Due to high volume of applications, only shortlisted CVs will be contacted.


Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance.

An award-winning organisation, having secured the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade over multiple years. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience.

Please Note: If a high volume of applications is received, only candidates shortlisted will be contacted.