💼 Full-Time Position

Principal Platform Engineer

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LinuxRecruit
📍 , , united kingdom, , , united kingdom, United-Kingdom
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Location
, , united kingdom, United-Kingdom
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Posted
May 26, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Are you looking for a role where you can lead teams, manage stakeholders, still get hands on, and be the go to person when things get tricky? You’re in the right place. You’ll be joining a global organisation, but within a business unit of around 300 engineers across the UK, giving you the stability of a major player with the agility and autonomy of a scale up. You’ll be part of the Centre of Excellence for Platform Engineering, helping clients modernise platforms at scale: cloud first architecture, large scale Kubernetes, migrating legacy apps to microservices, and building systems that actually work, not just installing Kubernetes and hoping for the best. You’ll shape platform strategy, guide engineering decisions, and roll up your sleeves when needed – leadership with credibility, not just PowerPoint. And they invest in their people: 260 of their 300 engineers have achieved the CKA qualification, fully funded. Also, there's a new initiative where all new starters can reap up t...