Principal Cloud Engineer (AWS)

Cloudscaler is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to join their team and help major organizations leverage the power of AWS. This role involves designing, building, and automating AWS land zones, packaging services into AMIs, and leading technical strategy. The company focuses on security and scalability and offers a people-first, inclusive culture.

Requirements

• Deep AWS expertise, especially landing zones
• Strong hands-on Terraform and automation skills
• Clear opinions on IaC structure and cloud architecture
• Experience working in enterprise-scale AWS environments
• Proven experience leading cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers
• Strong hands-on AWS knowledge, with the ability to choose the right service for the job
• Deep expertise in landing zones, multi-account, and multi-tenant AWS setups
• Experience operating cloud platforms at scale, ideally in regulated environments
• Solid grasp of secure, scalable, and resilient AWS architecture
• Strong understanding of AWS security risks and how to prevent, detect, and remediate them
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform (or CloudFormation)
• Confident advising on IaC structure and modularisation
• Awareness of SRE principles and operational priorities
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Strong system design skills

Benefits

• Industry-leading AWS expert team
• People-first, inclusive culture
• Tailored career growth
• Comprehensive, flexible benefits
• High-impact projects
• Expert community
• Buy holiday scheme
• Wellbeing & mental health support
• Individual training budget
• Recruitment and customer referral bonuses
• Public holiday opt-out scheme