Principal Platform Engineer

Overview

The Principal Platform Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for defining, building, evolving, and governing secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud platform architecture and infrastructure. The role sets technical direction and standards across public and private cloud while enabling engineering teams through self-service capabilities, automation, and sound platform practices.

What you'll do

• Design and architect scalable AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform.
• Lead cloud technology evaluation and standardisation initiatives.
• Build, optimise, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment.
• Establish DevOps and DevSecOps best practices across the organisation.
• Architect and manage Kubernetes environments across EKS, AKS, and GKE.
• Implement platform engineering tools to deliver self-service capabilities via an IDP such as Backstage.
• Define and enforce monitoring, alerting, and observability standards to ensure infrastructure reliability and performance.
• Foster collaboration between development and operations teams to drive a unified engineering culture.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.
• Write and maintain documentation to support knowledge sharing.
• Define, build, evolve, and govern cloud platform architecture and infrastructure.
• Work closely with engineering, security, and FinOps teams to embed best practices into platform design and delivery.
• Influence complex technical decisions, reduce platform risk, and enable engineering teams to build and operate services with confidence, speed, and financial discipline.

What you'll need

• Overall 12+ years of experience.
• 4+ years in cloud infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on experience designing and administering complex platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Deep knowledge of networking, including VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateways, BGP, and OSPF.
• Knowledge of IaaS/PaaS architectural patterns.
• 2+ years with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Hands-on experience with orchestration and automation platforms including AWX, Ansible Tower, and Terragrunt.
• Scripting experience in Python, Bash, or Go.
• 2+ years designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of security best practices, including secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance.
• 2+ years of Kubernetes administration across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes networking, RBAC, pod security, service mesh such as Istio, and Docker image management.
• Experience implementing developer portals such as Backstage, artifact repositories such as JFrog Artifactory or Nexus, API gateways, and self-service platform engineering tools to support internal teams.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms including Honeycomb, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Experience defining alerting standards and ensuring infrastructure reliability at scale.
• Strong grasp of microservices architecture, cloud networking protocols including Layer 2/3 and MPLS, DNS, load balancing, and traffic management.
• Ability to independently influence technical direction.
• Proficiency across version control systems including Git, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.
• Ability to operate autonomously and drive engineering standards across teams.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Hybrid working model with 3 days in the office.