Principal Platform Engineer (12 Month FTC)

We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate significant experience in:

Designing and operating internal developer platforms at scale.

Building reusable platform services, tooling, and self-service capabilities.

Applying platform-as-a-product principles to improve developer experience.

Establishing standards and paved-road approaches that enable engineering teams to work independently.

Designing highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud-native architectures.

Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, identity, and security.

Experience making architectural trade-offs across reliability, scalability, performance, cost, and developer experience.

Infrastructure as Code and automated cloud provisioning.

CI/CD and automated software delivery.

Automation of operational processes and platform lifecycle management.

Experience establishing repeatable, standardised engineering workflows.

Designing platforms for resilience, fault tolerance, observability, and operational excellence.

Applying SRE principles and practices to improve availability and reduce operational risk.

Performance analysis, capacity planning, scalability engineering, and proactive reliability improvement.

Establishing meaningful service-level objectives, monitoring, alerting, and operational practices.

Providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams or a wider engineering organisation.

Influencing architecture and technical direction without relying solely on organisational authority.

Leading complex technical initiatives and driving decisions through ambiguity.

Mentoring senior and developing engineers and creating a culture of knowledge sharing and technical excellence.

We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving.

By joining AND, we’ll provide:

Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people’s lives.

A “Blended Working” model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.

A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self.

An annual budget for training and upskilling, including allocated days off so you don’t have to study in your own free time.

Monthly and quarterly team socials - on us - ranging from after work drinks, to driving experience days with your fellow club members.

A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself.

At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.