Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Description

A large security client is looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to to join their growing team. This individual will be responsible for setting the vision for the SRE organization by bringing cloud architecture expertise and business knowledge to help create strategic decisions that will further the infrastructure's scalability, reliability, and durability. You will work to standardize the technology stack and provide a consistent workflow for development teams to interface with SRE. Duties will include improving the whole life cycle of services from inception to design, through deployment, operation, and refinement; ensure software deployment pipelines fit organizational needs and workflow; utilize automation to reduce operational overhead; and work with quality engineering teams to build tools and testing strategies for problem prevention, detection, and chaos testing. Beyond this, you will identify observability gaps and establish SLIs and SLOs for services being designed and lead proof-of-concept activities. This role is hybrid onsite, 4 days a week at any of the following cities: Blue Bell, PA, Irving, TX, Boca Raton, FL.

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Skills and Requirements

Experience: 8+ years in cloud architecture or platform engineering, with hands-on experience in large-scale distributed systems.

Cloud Expertise: Proven experience in modern cloud platform architecture, especially Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Observability: Deep understanding and practical experience with observability tools and principles across all pillars.

Software Development: Proficiency in languages such as Python, Go, Java, or similar, with the ability to prototype, automate, and build custom infrastructure tools.

Experience supporting production applications GCP Professional Certifications (e.g., Cloud Architect, DevOps Engineer, SRE).

Hands-on experience applying SRE principles (SLOs, Error Budgets, Toil reduction).

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.

Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Experience optimizing CI/CD pipelines and promoting DevOps methodologies