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Senior Principal Platform Lead || AI & Agentic Systems

London, England, gb🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and ship an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to reduce cognitive load and accelerate delivery for distributed engineering teams at IFS.

Role type

Senior Principal Platform Lead (Developer Experience & AI Systems)

Builds

Internal Developer Platform (IDP), service catalogs, golden paths, CI/CD pipelines, and developer portals.

Domain

Enterprise Software, Cloud-Native Infrastructure, AI Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Crossplane), CI/CD, Observability, Go, React/Next.js, Kafka/RedPanda, PostgreSQL, AKS, AI system architecture, LLM integration, Agentic AI design

Preferred skills

Experience with Backstage/Port/Cortex, Enterprise-scale platform adoption, Event-driven architecture

Technologies

Kubernetes, Terraform, Crossplane, Go, React, Next.js, Kafka, RedPanda, PostgreSQL, AKS, LLMs

Responsibilities

Own IDP vision, roadmap, and end-to-end execution; Define platform standards and golden paths; Integrate authentication and authorization services; Drive measurable adoption via metrics (DORA, NPS); Mentor Principal and Senior platform engineers; Partner with IAM, infrastructure, and SRE teams.

Seniority

Senior Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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