Principal Platform Engineer

We are looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to join our partnerʼs team.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

You'll become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experience of tomorrow.

Responsibilities:

• A talent to help modernize and build out our AI-enabled cloud infrastructure, with AWS as primary and Azure as secondary
• Specifically, we're looking for people with hands-on experience architecting and building:
• Cloud infrastructure supporting agentic AI platforms (account structure, environment design, etc.)
• SDN micro-segmentation, including controls to contain or isolate rogue agent behavior
• Centralized policy/control planes for governing agent access and actions
• Infrastructure-as-Code (OpenTofu/Terramate, Ansible, GitHub Actions, etc.) driving all of the above
• This isn't general cloud engineering, we need people who've actually built this kind of agentic-platform infrastructure before, not just traditional cloud architecture

Requirements:

Architecture

• Hands-on Platform Engineer for building Amazon Web Services infrastructure from the ground up.
• Experience with OpenTofu.
• Leads the development of systems architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas
• Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development.
• Provides advice on technical aspects of solution development and integration
• Ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied

Software Design

• Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate systems design methods, tools and techniques
• Undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs
• Contributes to the development of systems design policies and standards and selection of architecture components
• Comprehensive understanding of paradigms, principles, and methodologies such as SOLID, GRASP, TDD, and DDD
• Strong foundation in designing solutions that adhere to development standards focused on the most prominent qualities such as operation excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization and sustainability.

Requirements and release management

• Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large/complex initiatives.
• Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution
• Plans, organizes and conducts audits and determines whether appropriate quality control has been applied.
• Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk.

Business skills

• Employing Business Acumen to align technology solutions effectively with organizational objectives.
• Demonstrate strong Leadership Skills by motivating cross-functional teams, guiding decision-making processes, and fostering collaboration.
• Identifying and mitigating risks associated with technology investments and architectural decisions through effective Risk Management.

Desirable:

• Architecture framework (SEI, TOGAF, etc.);
• Cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google GCP)
• Delivery processes (SAFe, Agile, etc);