Principal Platform & Identity Engineer

This opportunity sits right in the middle. You'll design, build, operate, and evolve a modern enterprise platform, taking full ownership of identity, automation, and infrastructure services across both on-prem and cloud environments.

This is a hands-on technical leadership position within a large, high-profile organisation undergoing significant infrastructure transformation over the next 3-5 years.

If you want a role where you won't get boxed in, where you can use your breadth across identity, cloud, automation, and infrastructure, this is the one.

What You'll Do

In this hybrid engineering + architectural role, you will:

• Own and evolve the enterprise identity & infrastructure strategy
• Build and deliver roadmaps, principles, guardrails, and operational patterns
• Lead the design, build and operation of the organisation's next-gen platform
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Terraform, Ansible, GitLab)
• Partner closely with Security and Architecture to ensure a secure, evergreen, resilient platform
• Act as a senior technical authority during incidents, outages, and complex engineering challenges
• Support the shift to a modern "as-a-service" infrastructure model
• Contribute directly to a multi-year transformation across cloud, data centre, identity, and automation

This is not a detached architect role, you will stay close to the technology, get hands-on when needed, and influence key strategic decisions.

• Strong experience across Entra ID, Active Directory, Azure SSO
• Conditional Access (must have)
• App Registrations / Enterprise Applications
• One Identity Active Roles
• JIT access, ZTNA concepts, and ideally zScaler

Infrastructure & Platform:

• VMware (VCF ideally)
• Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat)
• Microsoft stack
• Storage, OS, data centre fundamentals
• Networking (WAN/LAN, routing, firewalls, IDS/IPS, WLAN, load balancing)

Automation (non-negotiable):

• Terraform
• Ansible
• GitLab (pipelines, automation, patterns)

You're also someone who:

• Has evolved with the industry - not stuck in on-prem only or cloud-only silos
• Thinks in terms of platforms, not just ticket queues or pipeline building
• Can influence and negotiate with senior stakeholders
• Communicates clearly at both technical and non-technical levels, If you're a Senior Engineer with architectural capability, or a hands-on architect who still enjoys real engineering, apply directly for immediate consideration