Job Title: Principal Engineer II
Industry: Payments Technology / Fintech
Location: UK & Ireland
Salary: £110,000
Type: Permanent, Full-time

Our client, a high-growth, multi-national payments technology company, is building the next generation of capabilities to power its merchant-first ecosystem. They are establishing a new Technical Operations organization and are seeking a senior, hands-on technical leader to help design, implement, and support a hybrid multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and on-premise ecosystem, including the migration of legacy infrastructure onto modern platforms.

The Role:

• Provide senior Technical Operations leadership on all design and standards issues, including training and mentoring
• Evaluate, test, develop, and implement complex technical solutions to address business problems
• Support system and network infrastructure including switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls, compute, storage, and virtualization
• Manage highly visible/risky changes and act as TechOps liaison to Engineering, Architecture, InfoSec, and Production Support
• Make recommendations for emerging and altered technologies to drive productivity and cost savings
• Coordinate the development of a comprehensive Disaster Recovery Plan and conduct periodic testing
• Provide regular reports to the CTO office on network usage, security, and service levels
• Communicate support efforts on project-related items to the wider organization

Skills Needed:

• 10+ years of enterprise-level system/network design and support experience
• 10+ years of relevant experience in Cloud environments
• 5+ years as a technical lead or architect
• Expert-level experience with Palo Alto Firewalls/Panorama and Juniper switching and routing products
• Expert-level knowledge of VXLAN & EVPN, OSPF & BGP routing protocols
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform) and scripting (Bash/PowerShell/Perl/Python)
• Experience with authentication technologies (LDAP/Active Directory, RADIUS), Windows Server, and Linux

Benefits

• High-impact, senior technical leadership role shaping a brand-new organization
• Direct influence on strategic technology decisions, from Principal to VP level
• Exposure to advanced multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure projects
• Autonomous, empowered working culture with minimal process overhead
• Strong focus on mentoring, training, and developing others
• Opportunity to lead complex, high-visibility technical projects end-to-end

Research indicates that men will apply to a role when they meet only 50–60% of the requirements, while women and other underrepresented groups often look for a 90–100% match. If this role excites you but you don't tick every single box, please still apply. We'd love to hear from you.