Senior Cloud Platform Architect (Remote)

Kenyan Edu; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Company paid medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension scheme

Annual training allowance

Wellbeing allowance

Job summary

Aker Systems is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and evolution of secure, distributed, cloud-native systems. This hands-on leadership role focuses on scalable platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

You will mentor teams, shape engineering strategy, and collaborate with Product, DevOps, and Security to deliver reliable technical solutions in a high-assurance environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years hands-on experience with Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, and modern SOA.
• Strong understanding of Kafka, event-driven patterns, and asynchronous communication.
• Experience designing and scaling cloud-native platforms in AWS or Azure.
• Solid experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure automation.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) and observability practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery of secure, scalable microservices in a multi-cloud, containerized environment.
• Design and implement solutions using Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kafka, and cloud-native tools.
• Mentor engineers and uphold engineering best practices, documentation, testing, and CI/CD integration.
• Collaborate with Product, DevOps, and Security to translate business needs into robust technical solutions.
• Drive infrastructure automation and deployment consistency using Kubernetes and Git-based workflows.
• Oversee performance tuning, incident resolution, and platform-wide architectural evolution.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Spring Boot

Kafka

Event-driven architecture

Kubernetes

CI/CD

DDD

API design

Leadership

Distributed systems

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Terraform

Helm

GitOps

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Aker Systems is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and evolution of secure, distributed, cloud-native systems. This hands-on leadership role focuses on scalable platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

You will mentor teams, shape engineering strategy, and collaborate with Product, DevOps, and Security to deliver reliable technical solutions in a high-assurance environment.