Principal Engineer DevOps

Job summary

The Principal DevOps Engineer role is pivotal in shaping the technical direction and multi-year strategy for the infrastructure and platform, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Responsibilities include leading architecture for critical systems, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring platform reliability and security compliance in a regulated environment, while fostering a culture of engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Industry-recognised mastery in designing, building, and operating large-scale, business-critical distributed systems
• Deep expertise across infrastructure domains
• Strong reliability-engineering background
• Security-first mindset with experience in regulated environments
• Continuous delivery and DevOps mindset
• Vendor and external-partner management skills
• Exceptional business acumen
• Strong communication of complex technical ideas
• Proven history of visionary technical leadership

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the long-term technical strategy and architectural vision for the infrastructure and platform
• Act as technical owner and lead architect for critical systems
• Be accountable for platform reliability and operational excellence
• Own the platform's security and regulatory-compliance posture
• Manage key external technology relationships and vendor management
• Drive infrastructure cost-efficiency
• Build self-service capabilities and reusable frameworks
• Provide expert counsel to leadership on technology threats
• Mentor and develop Senior & Staff engineers
• Identify and mitigate technical and operational risk
• Champion engineering excellence
• Lead engineering guilds

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