Principal Platform Engineer (SRE/Cloud)

Salary: £59,000 - 99,000 per year

Requirements:

• A proven track record of designing and delivering scalable, reliable cloud-based infrastructure and platform services
• Extensive experience running and supporting services in production environments, including on-call leadership and incident command at scale
• Previous experience as an individual contributor in an engineering leadership position such as Staff+, Principal or Architect
• Deep expertise managing Kubernetes production clusters at scale, including cluster lifecycle and upgrades, resource optimization, security, high availability, and troubleshooting complex networking or scheduling issues
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform, and modern GitOps practices
• Strong software engineering foundations with the ability to build and maintain production-grade tooling; experience with Go is preferable and NodeJS is a plus
• Strong understanding of observability, SLOs, alerting and cost management for large-scale systems
• Operational experience with Kafka, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch and Istio
• Familiarity with LLMOps is a plus, including model gateways and routing with LiteLLM, and experiment and model tracking with MLflow
• A FinOps mindset with the ability to drive cost-awareness across teams and balance spend against reliability and performance
• People leadership experience in the form of mentorship and coaching
• Ability to collaborate with non-technical colleagues to turn ambiguously defined problems into clear requirements and pragmatic solutions

Responsibilities:

• Design solutions, produce architectures and write RFCs for platform, reliability and infrastructure initiatives with impact across Engineering and beyond
• Help teams ship scalable, reliable and cost-effective services while maintaining hands-on credibility
• Partner with Product and Engineering Directors on planning by scoping and sizing large platform initiatives that span multiple teams
• Work with other Principal Engineers to create and update the architectural vision that supports our strategy
• Engage with other Principal Engineers to set and advocate company-wide standards for operational excellence, observability, reliability and incident response
• Take a whole-company view of major incidents, identify recurring themes and turn them into company-level investments
• Own and evolve the platform and infrastructure tech radar, making data-backed cases for adoption and deprecation of technologies and services
• Set the standard for operational ownership and support teams in owning their services end-to-end
• Coach and mentor Engineers up to Staff level across the organisation
• Collaborate on customer solutions with non-technical stakeholders including Sales, Customer Success and our Fortune 500 customers
• Stay connected to production through on-call and use that perspective to raise the bar for incident response, observability and reliability across Engineering

Technologies:

• Agentic AI
• AI
• Architect
• Cloud
• ElasticSearch
• GitOps
• Istio
• Support
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• LLM
• MLflow
• MongoDB
• NodeJS
• PostgreSQL
• SAP
• Security
• Terraform
• DevOps
• Incident Management
• Network
• RBAC

More:

We are Beamery, an equal opportunity employer committed to building a representative, equitable, inclusive and engaging environment. Our jobs, skills and tasks data platform helps organizations navigate the future of work across recruitment, mobility, upskilling, diversity, work architecture and workforce planning. We are on a mission to create equal access to meaningful work, skills and careers for all. We value a culture built on trust, empathy and honesty, and we are deepening our native integrations with SAP, Workday, Microsoft and LinkedIn while advancing our agentic AI and proprietary LLM and knowledge graph technology. This is a full-time hybrid role in our Engineering department based in London, UK, with compensation of 110K to 140K.

last updated 36 week of 2026