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Principal Platform Engineer

Rowden Technologies · Bristol

Rowden is a fast-growing Bristol defence technology company working on edge sensing, AI and communications. This principal engineer defines and leads its internal developer platform, including how AI agents are deployed and run safely across the business.

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Company
Rowden Technologies
Where
Bristol
Function
Engineering
Posted
4 days ago
Work mode
Hybrid

The role

What you’ll do

  • Set the architecture and long-term direction of the internal developer platform
  • Define patterns and guardrails for running agentic AI workloads
  • Own CI/CD design and infrastructure-as-code standards
  • Build hands-on and lead platform work across engineering teams

What you’ll need

  • Extensive experience designing and running engineering platforms at scale
  • Production use of Kubernetes, Terraform and FluxCD
  • Experience building platforms for agentic AI workloads
  • Deep secure-by-design and zero-trust knowledge, with Python or Go skills

Good to know: At least 3 days a week at the Bristol HQ. Salary is not published but discussed at first stage. You must be eligible for SC clearance.

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