Principal Platform Engineer (all genders)

Job summary

The Principal Platform Engineer role is centered on designing, building, and enhancing core platform capabilities within a hybrid cloud environment. Responsibilities include developing automation patterns, supporting Kubernetes/OpenShift, and ensuring observability and security in platform solutions, while driving engineering improvements and policy enforcement.

Qualifications

• strong hands-on engineer with deep technical expertise
• pragmatic problem-solving mindset
• experience in hybrid cloud environments
• comfortable building, testing, automating and improving complex platform capabilities
• software engineering experience is a plus

Responsibilities

• Build and improve reusable platform services, modules, templates and engineering blueprints.
• Develop prototypes, automation patterns and robust technical solutions for hybrid cloud and container platforms.
• Support Kubernetes/OpenShift, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, GitOps and platform automation initiatives.
• Embed observability, reliability, resilience and maintainability into platform solutions from the beginning.
• Contribute to secure-by-design platform capabilities, policy enforcement and technical guardrails.
• Reduce manual effort, simplify complex processes and help mature the platform through pragmatic technical improvements.

Skills

Relocation