Principal Platform Engineer

Overview

Principal Platform Engineer serving as technical authority and architectural leader for a cloud-native platform and infrastructure in the Financial Platform organization.

What you'll do

• Define and drive target-state architecture for a next-generation cloud-native platform.
• Write production-grade code and build foundational custom tooling/operators.
• Author reusable Terraform modules and design reference implementations.
• Architect resilient, multi-cluster Kubernetes topologies and related orchestration practices.
• Architect CI/CD golden paths and progressive delivery pipelines with deployment guardrails.
• Embed DevSecOps through policy-as-code, secrets management, and secure supply chain standards.
• Design observability/SLI-SLO standards and lead RCA for critical production incidents.

What you'll need

• 7+ years hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, Distributed Systems, or Cloud Architecture.
• Expertise architecting highly available, fault-tolerant, secure cloud topologies (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Proficiency in Golang or Python and advanced scripting with Bash.
• Expert-level proficiency with Terraform (custom provider/module development, state locking, drift detection).
• Proficiency with policy-as-code engines including OPA/Rego and Kyverno.
• Comprehensive understanding of Kubernetes internals (control plane components, CNI/CSI, controllers/operators, RBAC, API extensions, scheduling primitives).
• Hands-on experience with observability platforms and distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry.

Details

• Location: Gurugram, India.