Principal Platform Engineer

Skills

About the Role

You will define and evolve secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud platform architecture. You will design AWS infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code solutions, build deployment pipelines, manage Kubernetes environments, create self-service platform capabilities, define observability standards, and provide technical leadership and documentation.

Requirements

• 12 or more years of overall experience
• Cloud infrastructure engineering across AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Cloud networking, IaaS, and PaaS architecture
• Terraform or Ansible
• AWX, Ansible Tower, or Terragrunt
• Python, Bash, or Go
• CI/CD pipeline design
• DevSecOps, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance
• Kubernetes administration
• EKS, AKS, or GKE
• Networking, RBAC, pod security, Istio, and Docker image management
• Backstage, JFrog Artifactory, Nexus, API gateways, and self-service tooling
• Honeycomb, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Microservices architecture, DNS, load balancing, and traffic management
• Git, GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket

Responsibilities

• Design scalable AWS cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code solutions
• Lead cloud technology evaluation and standardisation
• Build, optimise, and maintain infrastructure deployment pipelines
• Establish DevOps and DevSecOps practices
• Architect and manage Kubernetes environments
• Implement self-service platform engineering tools and developer portals
• Define and enforce monitoring, alerting, and observability standards
• Foster collaboration between development and operations
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and documentation

Benefits

• Extra time off for volunteering and community work