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Principal Infrastructure Platform Engineer

United Kingdom, Sheffield · Job Posted March 22, 2026
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Job Description

Principal Infrastructure Platform Engineer required to work with a key client on a 6 month initial contract. This role will require on site work in Sheffield 3 days per week. Inside IR35.

Job Responsibility

  • Organizational Alignment & System Comprehension
  • Technical Leadership & Measurable Impact
  • Architecture & Systems Knowledge
  • Reliability, Security & Risk Awareness
  • Enterprise Influence & Collaboration
  • Architecture & Technical Direction
  • Execution & Delivery
  • Reliability, Security & Operations
  • Mentorship & Technical Stewardship

Requirements

  • Strong technical judgment
  • Aligns platform decisions with enterprise goals
  • Enables progress across multiple teams
  • Sets enterprise-wide technical direction
  • Reduces systemic risk
  • Scales impact through standards, strategy, and mentorship
  • Working knowledge of Key Platform Products/Services, Network topology, IAM, CI/CD, monitoring, and security tooling
  • Accurately explains current-state architecture, dependencies, and constraints
  • Identifies undocumented system behaviors, hidden coupling, or legacy risks
  • Reviews historical incidents, audits, and compliance requirements
  • Understands escalation paths, operational ownership, and change management processes
  • Proactively identifies systemic reliability or security risks and articulates business impact
  • Establishes productive relationships across Enterprise Infrastructure, Security, Application teams, Architecture review boards
  • Authors or contributes to enterprise-grade design documents
  • Aligns proposals with Enterprise architecture standards, Security and compliance requirements, Cost and operational constraints
  • Leads or materially contributes to at least one high-impact infrastructure initiative
  • Improves consistency of Incident response, Postmortems, Change management practices
  • Mentors senior/staff engineers through design reviews and technical guidance
  • Models strong documentation and decision-making discipline

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