Principal Cloud Engineer (Azure)

About the role 

As a Principal Cloud Engineer, you are the senior technical authority for cloud engineering behind our large-scale SaaS platform — thousands of customer environments under stringent 24/7 availability and performance requirements. You form and drive the cloud technical strategy with the Director of Cloud & Developer Operations, and lead through expertise and influence: guiding architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and holding coherent technical direction across teams — not owning the cloud function organisationally. 

This is the most senior individual-contributor cloud role in the Deploy, Run & Optimize lane — our CloudOps and DevOps function. You lead the hardest cross-team cloud initiatives and infrastructure transformation, and you bring our AI-native ways of working into how the platform is built, operated, and remediated — agents and bounded automation with observability, approvals, c...