At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and innovate Route 101’s cloud infrastructure strategy across AWS and Azure.
- Company: Join Route 101, a forward-thinking tech company focused on security and operational excellence.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, hybrid work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a culture that values automation, documentation, and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a high-growth environment while shaping the future of cloud infrastructure.
- Qualifications: Deep hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering and strong security awareness required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
We are seeking a Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own and lead Route 101’s infrastructure strategy across AWS, Azure, and on-premise networking solutions, with a strong focus on security, monitoring, resilience, compliance, and operational excellence in a high-growth, high-profile, regulated environment. This role will act as the senior technical authority for infrastructure design, delivery, governance, and continuous improvement, ensuring that platforms are secure by design, observable, resilient, cost-conscious, and aligned to customer, regulatory, and contractual expectations. The successful candidate will work across delivery, operations, security, architecture, customer-facing teams, and development teams to define infrastructure roadmaps, guide solution design, set platform guardrails, and ensure that monitoring, compliance, recovery, and operational-readiness controls are embedded without taking ownership of application delivery pipelines. This is an ideal role for someone who combines deep hands-on infrastructure engineering capability with strategic judgement, strong security awareness, stakeholder confidence, and the ability to set direction in an AWS and Azure cloud-first business.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Route 101’s infrastructure strategy across AWS and Azure with some light on-premise networking, ensuring alignment with business priorities, customer commitments, and government-facing delivery expectations.
- Act as the senior technical authority for secure, resilient, and scalable infrastructure architecture, standards, roadmaps, and platform guardrails across cloud and hybrid estates.
- Own cloud control-plane governance across AWS and Azure, including landing zones, tenant and account structure, privileged access, logging, policy guardrails, quotas, backup policies, lifecycle management, and recovery procedures.
- Prioritise security-by-design across infrastructure services, including IAM, encryption, secrets management, least privilege, network segmentation, vulnerability management, secure configuration, and zero-trust principles.
- Own infrastructure monitoring and operational readiness, including alert catalogues, severity mapping, dashboards, runbooks, SMC, Support and SOC routing, test evidence, customer communication paths, and exception tracking.
- Maintain infrastructure assurance evidence, including workload inventories, ownership maps, privileged-access evidence, monitoring coverage, backup and restore evidence, compliance exceptions, and audit-ready control documentation.
- Define and evidence infrastructure resilience controls, including backup policies, restore testing, RTO/RPO assumptions, disaster-recovery rehearsals, rollback paths, and service-continuity evidence.
- Ensure infrastructure services support compliance obligations and customer assurance requirements, including ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, CIS Controls, NCSC guidance, cloud well-architected principles, and public-sector security expectations.
- Lead Infrastructure as Code adoption in a stack including Pulumi, AWS CDK, and GitHub Actions to improve repeatability, governance, and delivery confidence.
- Partner with development teams on CI/CD and DevOps practices by defining infrastructure guardrails, monitoring standards, compliance evidence, release traceability, and operational-readiness requirements, while application delivery pipelines remain owned by development teams.
- Provide technical leadership on complex projects, customer engagements, estimations, migrations, service transitions, vendor selection, and senior 3rd/4th line escalation where required.
- Mentor engineers, raise infrastructure engineering standards, and promote a culture of automation, documentation, security awareness, evidence-led compliance, and continuous improvement.
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