Principal Platform Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes & SRE

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to define the technical strategy for scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS. You will lead migration and platform adoption, drive containerization with Kubernetes/EKS, and contribute code and IaC via Terraform, CloudFormation, and Helm.

You will design resilient patterns, build CI/CD pipelines, advance SRE practices, manage capacity and cost, enforce security and compliance, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and security

Qualifications

• 10+ years professional software engineering experience.
• AWS platform engineering with deep hands-on experience.
• Strong skills in containerization and Kubernetes at scale.
• Experience with IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm.
• Production code and platform automation in Go/Python/Java.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical strategy, roadmap, and standards for cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities.
• Lead migration and platform adoption efforts, including containerization and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Contribute production code and infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, platform services, and automation.
• Perform design and code reviews.
• Design scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure patterns for microservices, data stores, caching, and messaging.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, release automation, testing strategies, and safe deployment practices.
• Drive SRE and observability practices, including SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, tracing, alerting, runbooks, incident response, and post-mortems.
• Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, and traffic engineering for high-scale workloads.
• Own and promote AWS cost optimization practices.
• Define and enforce platform standards, security controls, environment tagging, and operational excellence practices.
• Mentor and grow senior and mid-level engineers.
• Collaborate with product, security, platform, and operations stakeholders to align solutions with business and compliance requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Communication

Cloud platform engineering

Tools

Kubernetes/EKS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Helm

Spinnaker

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to define the technical strategy for scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS. You will lead migration and platform adoption, drive containerization with Kubernetes/EKS, and contribute code and IaC via Terraform, CloudFormation, and Helm.

You will design resilient patterns, build CI/CD pipelines, advance SRE practices, manage capacity and cost, enforce security and compliance, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and security