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Principal Platform Engineer

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Key Skills: AWS Cloud, Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), IAC, DevOps, Kubernetes, Agentic AI, Orchestration, Copilot, Cloud Computing, AI Artificial intelligence

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Design, build and operate enterprise AWS and Kubernetes platform capabilities for cloud, hybrid, on-premises and edge environments.
  • Lead technical design and implementation of reusable platform services, automation frameworks and operational capabilities.
  • Establish scalable platform patterns covering cluster lifecycle management, networking, storage, security, secrets, certificates, observability, backup and recovery.
  • Develop repeatable Infrastructure as Code and container platform deployment patterns that improve consistency, supportability and operational efficiency.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams and contribute to platform roadmaps, architecture reviews and modernization programs.

Skills Required:

  • 8 - 13 years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering.
  • Strong hands-on experience with DevOps practices and enterprise platform engineering across cloud and infrastructure environments.
  • Advanced Kubernetes experience, including cluster lifecycle management, scaling, networking, ingress, storage integration, security controls and platform operations.
  • Practical AWS Cloud experience building highly available, secure and scalable infrastructure and platform solutions.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code and containerization using technologies such as Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes.

Good to Have:

  • Cloud computing and enterprise orchestration experience, including GitOps, Argo CD, Helm, platform automation or distributed edge environments.
  • Experience with artificial intelligence, AI/ML platforms, Agentic AI or Copilot technologies.

Education: B.E. in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline.


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