Principal, Platform Engineer DevOps

Step into a career-defining role where your DevOps mastery shapes the future of enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure. We’re on the hunt for a visionary Principal, Platform Engineer (DevOps) with deep hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure, container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code. You'll architect and implement robust, scalable solutions that span on-prem and hyperscale cloud environments, driving high availability, disaster recovery, and next-gen observability across mission-critical systems.

More than just technical expertise, we're looking for a strategic leader who understands DevOps is a culture and not something you can buy. Someone ready to own the DevOps vision, guide cross-functional teams, and evangelize modern engineering practices. With over a decade of engineering experience, including six years in DevOps and three in leadership, you'll champion automation, mentor teams, and spearhead continuous improvement in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Ready to lead transformation at scale? Let’s talk.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

Hands-on, technology experience and the management thereof in this area includes but is not limited to:
• Microsoft Azure.
• Production experience of containers and associated orchestration tools.
• Enterprise scale applications, API Gateways, high availability architectures, load balancing and disaster recovery.
• Experience of setting up CI/CD pipelines including production deployments
• Configuration management tooling.
• Package / dependency management solutions.
• Commercial or open source observability tooling.
Comfortable provisioning platforms through IaC tools.
• Robust understanding of on-premise infrastructure.
• The ability to apply DevOps tools and practices to on-premise workloads.
• Proficient in migrating workloads between on-premise and hyperscale cloud environments.
• Familiarity with re-architecting applications to operate in hyperscale cloud environments.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• 10+ Years engineering experience.
• 6+ Years DevOps experience.
• 3+ Years as a lead engineer.
• Leading on the design for hyperscale cloud architectures and microservice oriented, containerised solutions.
• Working across architecture and engineering disciplines.
• DevOps Strategy - Working with the Cloud Architect, establish and maintain the overall vision for the delivery pipeline.
• Documentation of design and implementation of the DevOps strategy.
• Establishing measurable and maintaining success criteria / KPI’s.
• Continual improvement.
• BAU / Operations - Lead investigations to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical problems using a variety of techniques.
• Evangelising modern ways of working – Leading a DevOps community of practice; Increasing adoption of automation, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Line management of staff and CCT engineering roles, oversight of partner resources.

What is it like to work at the EBRD?

Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in. 

The EBRD environment provides you with:

• Varied, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in;
• A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity;
• An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital  transformation at the heart of what we do.

Diversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does.  A diverse workforce with the right knowledge and skills enables connection with our clients, brings pioneering ideas, energy and innovation. The EBRD staff is characterised by its rich diversity of nationalities, cultures and opinions and we aim to sustain and build on this strength. As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, sexual orientation or disabilities. We offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements and believe we operate at our best when collaborating 3 days a week in person (minimum). 

Please note, that due to the high volume of applications received, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted (for further consideration).