Principal Engineer, Workplace Platforms (Hybrid UK)

Post Office Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27.5 days annual leave

Bonus up to 18% on target

Annual car allowance

Generous pension with 10% employer

24/7 digital GP services

Life assurance & income protection

400+ online courses & mentoring

Discounts via benefits platform

Job summary

Post Office Ltd. is seeking a Workplace Platforms Principal Engineer to lead the technical direction, design assurance and resilience of our workplace technology estate in a large enterprise environment.

You will partner with Identity & Workplace Technology, Cyber Security and Architecture to ensure secure, reliable services, guiding platform modernisation and strategic technology decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience as a senior infrastructure engineer or principal engineer within a large enterprise environment.
• Strong hands‑on expertise across server platforms and enterprise hosting.
• Proven ability to design, review and govern complex infrastructure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for workplace platforms and infrastructure services.
• Drive platform strategy, lifecycle management and resilience across core services.
• Collaborate with Cyber Security, Architecture and Operations to meet standards.
• Produce high-level and detailed designs, documentation and service transition outputs.
• Mentor engineers and promote high technical standards across delivery teams.

Skills

Windows Server

Linux Server

Exchange

Universal Print

Microsoft PKI

PowerShell scripting

Job description

Post Office Ltd. is seeking a Workplace Platforms Principal Engineer to lead the technical direction, design assurance and resilience of our workplace technology estate in a large enterprise environment.

You will partner with Identity & Workplace Technology, Cyber Security and Architecture to ensure secure, reliable services, guiding platform modernisation and strategic technology decisions.