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# Principal Solutions Architect

- **Company:** Realm
- **Location:** Nottingham, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £205,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Bash Shell, Cloud Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, SAS (Software), AI Infrastructure, Istio, Large Language Models, Kubernetes, Api Gateway
- **Published:** July 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2856142484-2

## About the Role

5+ years in a customer-facing technical role (SA, CSE, SRE, or similar)

Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, and API gateways/proxies

1+ years with AI/ML technologies - LLMs, agentic frameworks, or AI infrastructure

A track record of owning technical relationships with large enterprise customers post-sale

Strong communicator across the full spectrum - platform engineers to C-suite

Comfortable scripting in Go, Python, or Bash

This is a strong fit for senior SAs who have worked at Cloud Native companies where you've built real depth in cloud-native infrastructure and are ready to step into a role where AI is a first-class workload, not an afterthought.



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