Principal Platform Engineer

Overview

In this senior, hands-on role you will design, build, and operate the global platform infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments, while acting as a technical mentor and design authority. You will lead AI-driven operations to reduce toil, speed incident response, and raise operational leverage across the Platform/Operations function. Expect to own reliable, scalable infrastructure and guide cross-team engineering with strong pragmatism and fast execution.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate AWS (VPC, networking, EKS) and Azure (AKS, AKV, networking) infrastructure, including on-prem awareness
• Own core networking design, connectivity, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and cloud-on-prem private links
• Engineer for high availability with multi-region/multi-AZ architecture, capacity planning, and disaster recovery
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar), CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes-as-a-product
• Define and drive SLOs, observability standards (metrics, logging, tracing) and participate in post-incident reviews
• Continuously reduce toil through automation and scripting
• Identify, prototype, and productionise AI-assisted workflows across the department (incident triage, runbooks, log/alert analysis)
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools as a first-class part of your workflow and coach others to do the same safely
• Establish guardrails for AI use in regulated, availability-critical environments

Key requirements

• Operational/SRE background on highly available production platforms
• Deep hands-on AWS (VPC, networking, EKS) and Azure (AKS, Key Vault, networking); multi-cloud experience
• Strong networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, load balancing, hybrid connectivity)
• Production Kubernetes experience at scale (day-2 operations, multi-cluster)
• Infrastructure-as-code and automation (Terraform, Ansible; scripting in Python, Go, or Bash)
• Demonstrable use of AI tooling to improve engineering/operational workflows
• Credibility and communication skills to mentor senior engineers and influence design
• Understanding of different database technologies

• Mentorship
• Communication
• Influence without formal authority
• AWS (VPC, networking, EKS)
• Azure (AKS, Key Vault, networking)
• Networking: TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, load balancing

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