Principal Cloud & AI Engineer

IMT Resourcing Solutions; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary up to £100,000

Remote work

Direct impact on strategy and delivery

Job summary

A leading tech recruitment firm in the UK is seeking a Principal Cloud & AI Engineer to lead cloud migrations and drive AWS/Azure strategy. This remote role offers a salary up to £100,000 and the opportunity to innovate in AI/ML and cloud solutions while mentoring engineers. Ideal candidates should possess strong AWS expertise and leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Proven AWS expertise or willing to achieve certification.
• Strong hands-on background in cloud architecture and migrations.
• Experience with Windows workloads and cloud-native services.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale cloud migrations and design landing zones.
• Deliver AI/ML proofs of concept leveraging cloud services.
• Mentor engineers and guide engineering teams.

Skills

AWS expertise

Leadership skills

Cloud architecture

DevOps

Education

Solutions Architect / DevOps Pro certification

Tools

Terraform

GitOps

Job description

The role: Principal Cloud & AI Engineer – Up to £100k | Remote | Reporting to CTO

Lead the design and delivery of cutting-edge cloud solutions. We’re hiring a Principal Cloud & AI Engineer to drive AWS/Azure strategy, lead migrations, and shape automation, CI/CD, and AI/ML adoption. Hands-on technical leadership with strong AWS expertise essential.

The Role

• Lead large-scale cloud migrations (Windows to AWS, hybrid/on-prem integration)
• Design and optimise landing zones, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform IaC, GitOps
• Deliver AI/ML and Gen AI PoCs, leveraging cloud-native services
• Act as AWS technical authority, setting standards and guiding engineering teams
• Mentor engineers, foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation

What You’ll Bring

• Proven AWS expertise (Solutions Architect / DevOps Pro certified or willing to achieve)
• Strong hands-on background in cloud architecture and migrations
• Experience with Windows workloads, Workspaces, monitoring & security services
• Excellent leadership and communication skills

Why Apply?

• Salary up to £100,000
• Remote role with direct impact on strategy and technical delivery with client visits where needed
• Opportunity to scale cloud operations and achieve AWS partner status

This role will require some travel to customer sites so a full drivers licence is needed.