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Principal Platform Engineer

  • Lexington
  • |Full Time
Posted: 2 weeks ago• Recruiter recently active
Job Location
Lexington
Remote Work Policy

In office

Visa Sponsorship

Not Available

RelocationAllowed
Skills
TDD
Ansible
DDD
SOLID
GitHub Actions
GRASP
OpenTofu
Terramate
SDN Micro-Segmentation

About the job

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[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Specifically, we're looking for people with hands-on experience architecting and building:[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Cloud infrastructure supporting agentic AI platforms (account structure, environment design, etc.)[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • SDN micro-segmentation, including controls to contain or isolate rogue agent behavior[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Centralized policy/control planes for governing agent access and actions[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Infrastructure-as-Code (OpenTofu/Terramate, Ansible, GitHub Actions, etc.) driving all of the above[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • 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[Розрив обтікання текстом]

Requirements:

Architecture

  • Hands-on Platform Engineer for building Amazon Web Services infrastructure from the ground up.[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Experience with OpenTofu.[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Leads the development of systems architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development.[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Provides advice on technical aspects of solution development and integration[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied[Розрив обтікання текстом]

Software Design

  • Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate systems design methods, tools and techniques[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Contributes to the development of systems design policies and standards and selection of architecture components[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Comprehensive understanding of paradigms, principles, and methodologies such as SOLID, GRASP, TDD, and DDD[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • 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.[Розрив обтікання текстом]

Requirements and release management

  • Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large/complex initiatives.[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Plans, organizes and conducts audits and determines whether appropriate quality control has been applied.[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk.[Розрив обтікання текстом]

Business skills

  • Employing Business Acumen to align technology solutions effectively with organizational objectives.[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Demonstrate strong Leadership Skills by motivating cross-functional teams, guiding decision-making processes, and fostering collaboration.[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Identifying and mitigating risks associated with technology investments and architectural decisions through effective Risk Management.[Розрив обтікання текстом]

Desirable:

  • Architecture framework (SEI, TOGAF, etc.);[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google GCP)[Розрив обтікання текстом]

  • Delivery processes (SAFe, Agile, etc);