Principal Edge Delivery & Observability Architect

Financial Times; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive bonus

10% time for learning & tech talks

25 days annual leave, 30 after 2 years

Parental leave

Generous pension, company contribution

Job summary

The Financial Times is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the Edge Delivery & Observability work within its Infrastructure & Operations group. You will guide one or two feature teams to deliver robust tooling, promote high engineering standards, and collaborate with product and delivery functions to reduce developer toil across FT’s cloud and SaaS platforms.

You will drive operability, monitoring, and performance improvements across AWS-based infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on secure

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead engineering teams and deliver reliable infrastructure tooling.
• Strong collaboration with product, delivery and other disciplines.
• Customer-focused mindset with emphasis on running secure, stable systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead one or two feature teams, delivering quality tooling and products.
• Collaborate with managers and peers to align on priorities and roadmaps.
• Model and reinforce inclusive, multidisciplinary culture across FT I&O.
• Improve technology, process and culture, owning problems end-to-end.
• Maintain strong relationships with vendors and external partners.

Skills

Team leadership

Collaborative problem solving

Effective communication

Customer focus

Operability & monitoring

Tools

AWS

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Cloudflare

Route53

Python

Go

Job description

The Financial Times is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the Edge Delivery & Observability work within its Infrastructure & Operations group. You will guide one or two feature teams to deliver robust tooling, promote high engineering standards, and collaborate with product and delivery functions to reduce developer toil across FT’s cloud and SaaS platforms.

You will drive operability, monitoring, and performance improvements across AWS-based infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on secure