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# Principal Software Engineering Specialist

- **Company:** JAM Recruitment
- **Location:** Frimley, United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £140,338
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Computing Platforms, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Software Engineering, Kubernetes
- **Published:** November 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5961624906

## About the Role

* Ability to operate at engineering leadership or architecture level
 * Strong experience designing Kubernetes platforms, not just operating them
 * Proven experience integrating Kubernetes with CI/CD systems
 * Experience with multi-team platform design and governance
 * Desirable: Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux
 * Desirable: Experience with cloud-native build tooling such as BuildKit or Kaniko
 * Desirable: Familiarity with enterprise-scale engineering environments
 * Ideally five years of experience
 * STEM qualification, CEng, Chartered IT Professional (CITP), or equivalent

## Description

* Help define our architectural direction for Kubernetes platforms
 * Shape the architectural approach, design decisions, and engineering standards underpinning our future CI capabilities
 * Work closely with engineering leadership to introduce containerisation in a way that supports immediate delivery needs and longer-term strategic goals, including multi-team adoption, cost efficiency, and developer experience
 * Support the immediate project by integrating US Common Infrastructure Services (CIS) into CI
 * Following that integration, deliver CI capability within CIIS

Technologies:

 * ArgoCD
 * CI/CD
 * Cloud
 * GitOps
 * Support
 * Kubernetes
 * DevOps