Principal Platform Engineer || Agentic AI || Internal Developer Platform (IDP)

Job summary

As a Principal Platform Engineer focused on the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), you will be responsible for the implementation, configuration, and ongoing support of the IFS IDP. This role requires hands-on experience in building production AI applications and involves creating self-service workflows, maintaining CI/CD integration patterns, and providing technical enablement to product development teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building or operating IDPs in production environments
• Practical experience with IDP tooling: Backstage, Port, Cortex, or comparable platforms
• Experience implementing service catalogues, scaffolders, golden paths, and self-service infrastructure workflows
• Familiarity with integrating IDPs into CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native infrastructure
• Strong hands-on engineering capability across the NGA stack
• Experience supporting and enabling development teams in a platform capacity

Responsibilities

• Implement, configure, and maintain the IFS Internal Developer Platform (IDP) end-to-end
• Build self-service workflows, service catalogue entries, scaffolders, and golden path templates
• Integrate IDP tooling with Kairos and Nexus
• Build and maintain CI/CD integration patterns for product team consumption
• Create and maintain developer-facing documentation, guides, and enablement materials
• Provide platform support and technical enablement to product development teams
• Contribute to platform standards, architectural decisions, and the IDP roadmap
• Identify and resolve platform reliability and performance issues
• Collaborate closely with the Platform Lead and adjacent platform teams

Skills

Relocation