Principal Platform Engineer: Cloud, AI & Automation

Evolution USA; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Evolution USA is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design and evolve cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment systems that accelerate engineering teams. The role focuses on building scalable cloud-native platforms, improving developer productivity, and ensuring reliability in a modern cloud environment.

You will drive platform strategy, partner with software engineers, and implement IaC, observability, and security best practices to enable rapid, safe software delivery at scale.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps roles.
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Proven success building CI/CD platforms and deployment automation.
• Strong software engineering and automation skills, particularly with Python.
• Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes or ECS.
• Solid understanding of modern software delivery practices and cloud infrastructure design.
• Experience operating and supporting complex production environments.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple engineering teams and influence technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Designing and evolving cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
• Building and improving deployment systems, release automation, and engineering workflows.
• Creating self-service capabilities that reduce friction for development teams.
• Developing automation and tooling to improve scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Driving improvements in developer experience and engineering productivity.
• Building and maintaining highly available cloud-native systems.
• Partnering closely with software engineers to improve how applications are built, tested, and deployed.
• Implementing best practices around observability, monitoring, security, and incident response.
• Influencing platform architecture and engineering standards across multiple teams.

Skills

Platform Engineering

Cloud Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering

DevOps

Terraform

Python

Kubernetes

ECS

AWS

CI/CD

Automation

Observability

Security

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

ECS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Evolution USA is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design and evolve cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment systems that accelerate engineering teams. The role focuses on building scalable cloud-native platforms, improving developer productivity, and ensuring reliability in a modern cloud environment.

You will drive platform strategy, partner with software engineers, and implement IaC, observability, and security best practices to enable rapid, safe software delivery at scale.