Principal Cloud Engineer

Salary: £58,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong commercial experience as a Principal Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer or similar.
• Excellent VMware vSphere / ESXi administration experience.
• Strong Hyper-V experience.
• Hands-on experience with Veeam Backup & Replication.
• Experience supporting highly available production infrastructure.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana.
• Experience automating operational tasks using PowerShell, scripting or similar technologies.
• Excellent understanding of backup, disaster recovery and platform resilience.
• Ability to coordinate technical workloads and mentor engineers within a collaborative team.
• Experience with Zerto, Cohesity, OpsRamp, Microsoft 365 Backup, workflow automation tools such as n8n, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), ITIL environments, Managed Service Provider (MSP) experience, or customer onboarding and service transition is advantageous.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the operational health, availability and performance of the platform estate.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex platform and infrastructure issues.
• Lead technical investigations and major incident recovery.
• Drive automation to reduce manual processes and improve operational efficiency.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, observability and alerting using tools such as Grafana.
• Coordinate the day-to-day priorities of the Platform Engineering team.
• Maintain engineering standards, documentation and operational procedures.
• Support infrastructure upgrades, migrations, platform optimisation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of new platform capabilities.
• Help deliver highly resilient, reliable infrastructure supporting business-critical services.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• Grafana
• Hyper-V
• Support
• ITIL
• Microsoft 365
• n8n
• PowerShell
• VMware
• Veeam
• Office 365
• DevOps

More:

We are an established and growing technology business near Cardiff offering a Principal Cloud Engineer role with hybrid working, a £60,000 salary plus bonus, and an excellent benefits package. This is a hands-on position with significant autonomy and high levels of technical ownership, where you will work in a modern technology environment, influence platform strategy and engineering best practice, and join a collaborative engineering team focused on reliability, automation and continuous improvement. We also offer ongoing professional development and the opportunity to make a real impact on critical business platforms.

last updated 31 week of 2026