Principal Platform Engineer

Principal Platform Engineer 📍Remote (UK/Ireland) - Citizenship/Settled Status/ILR Required 💷Up to £90k + 7% bonus Every product our client ships runs on one secure hosting core: their own private cloud, spanning data centres, private cloud, OCI, AWS and Azure. As their engineering teams speed up with AI, that platform decides how fast and how safely the business can move. Our client is a global payments technology company, and they're looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to design that platform and write the software that runs it. You'll think in systems: how DNS, identity, certificates, secrets, networks and workloads fit together, and how they fail. You'll remove whole classes of security and reliability problems rather than fixing them one at a time. What you'll be doing Designing the secure hosting core across on prem, private and public cloud Building control planes that drive DNS, load balancers, firewalls and cloud through their APIs, with drift detection Running DNS and edge, including DNSSEC and Cloudflare origin protection Leading the move from Active Directory to Entra ID, and building an internal identity platform for just in time and privileged access Running the certificate authority on Vault, with mTLS, automated rotation and secrets read by reference Moving network and egress control to policy as code, with zero trust and identity based segmentation Running the platform to SLOs, owning safe deployments, and leading during major incidents What you'll bring Senior or lead experience designing, building and running production infrastructure platforms Expert in Go, Java, C# or Rust, writing production code daily Deep DNS, PKI and certificates, secrets management and network security knowledge Identity experience across Active Directory, Entra ID, OAuth, OIDC and SAML Hybrid cloud design across on prem, private and public cloud SRE practices: SLOs, error budgets, canary and blue green releases, incident command Bonus points for Cloudflare, Vault PKI, Terraform, OPA, Palo Alto, HAProxy, Consul or AI coding tools like Claude Code Why it's worth a conversation Real ownership, without the red tape you’d get at a hyperscaler Fully remote, with flexible hours 45 days holiday + bank holidays, private health insurance and a 5% pension £500 home office setup budget plus a monthly WFH allowance Hackathons, summer and Christmas meetups, and a paid volunteering day You'll need to be based in the UK or Ireland and already have the right to work there. Visa sponsorship isn't available. Research indicates that men will apply to a role when they only meet 50-60% of the descriptions, however, when looking at women and other minority groups, they can look for up to a 99% match in order to apply to a role. If you feel you are a fit for our role, please still apply, don’t worry if you don’t tick every single box. We’d still love to hear from you. We encourage underrepresented talent to apply to all our roles & support accessibility needs … mais Benefícios do seu anúncio de vaga Medical insurance Sobre a empresa Primis 236.838 seguidores Seguir Recrutamento e seleção de pessoal • 51-200 funcionários • 62 no LinkedIn Primis is a global, award-winning technology recruitment agency, partnering with high-growth startups, scale-ups, and enterprise organisations to deliver world-class tech talent. With teams based in London, Manchester, New York, Australia, Dubai and South Africa we operate as a global "around the clock" talent partner supporting businesses at every stage of growth. We specialise in recruitment across Software Engineering, Go-To-Market, Product, Data & Analytics, AI/ML, and C-suite leadership, delivering solutions across contract hiring and SOW, team build-outs, and executive search. Our focus is on connecting businesses with high-impact, passive and hard to find talent in competitive markets. We are proud to be recognised across the industry, including: UK Recruitment Company of the Year (APSCo Awards for Excellence 2025) Named in the Recruiter Hot 100 List (2025) Shortlisted for Best Recruitment Company (Women in Tech Employer Awards 2025) Alongside supporting our clients, we work closely with candidates to help them secure roles that align with their skills, ambitions, and long-term career goals. Get in touch today: London : 0203 854 9777 Manchester: 0161 394 1036 New York : 646 630 8467 Dubai: +971 55 233 4974 [email protected] [email protected] (we are hiring!) … mais Tem interesse em trabalhar conosco no futuro? Os usuários que compartilham ter interesse em uma empresa podem ter o dobro de chances de receber mensagem de um recrutador. Saiba mais Tenho interesse Fotos da empresa Exibir mais