Principal AWS Cloud Architect & Technical Leader

Addition; West of England, Malvern, Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Addition is seeking an experienced Principal AWS Cloud Engineer to lead cloud strategy and architecture across multi-region AWS environments. This senior role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership to shape platforms, infrastructure, and security in a high-stakes environment.

You will mentor engineers, drive IaC standards, and collaborate with leadership to define cloud roadmap while delivering scalable, resilient systems.

Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of networking, security and compute in AWS.
• Expertise in IaC and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Architect complex, multi-region AWS environments.
• Provide technical leadership across engineering squads.
• Mentor engineers across levels and promote best practices.
• Drive cost optimization and cloud efficiency.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

AWS CDK

Pulumi

CI/CD

Python

Java

Go

Node.js

Architecture

Leadership

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Pulumi

Job description

Addition is seeking an experienced Principal AWS Cloud Engineer to lead cloud strategy and architecture across multi-region AWS environments. This senior role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership to shape platforms, infrastructure, and security in a high-stakes environment.

You will mentor engineers, drive IaC standards, and collaborate with leadership to define cloud roadmap while delivering scalable, resilient systems.