Job Title: Principal Platform Engineer
We are looking for a seasoned technical leader to assess and elevate our engineering performance, DevOps maturity, platform reliability, and AI readiness. In this role, you will define improvement priorities, lead execution initiatives, and embed sustainable practices across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess and prioritize – Evaluate the current state of engineering performance, DevOps maturity, platform reliability, and AI readiness, then establish clear improvement priorities.
- Lead execution – Design and drive initiatives that improve software delivery performance, quality, reliability, and developer productivity.
- Provide technical leadership – Serve as design authority across engineering, platform, DevOps, and AI enablement initiatives.
- Strengthen core practices – Establish and enhance CI/CD, testing, observability, release management, and reliability practices aligned with industry best practices.
- Govern AI enablement – Define and implement frameworks for security, access controls, auditability, knowledge retrieval, and responsible AI.
- Collaborate broadly – Work with engineering, infrastructure, security, risk, compliance, operations, business stakeholders, and external partners to ensure aligned execution.
- Monitor and improve – Develop and track engineering performance metrics and drive continuous improvement initiatives to deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Mentor and embed – Coach internal teams, establish sustainable engineering standards, governance, and ensure knowledge transfer for long-term capability building.
Requirements
Experience
- Minimum 7 years in software engineering or platform engineering.
- Minimum 5 years in senior technical leadership or principal engineering roles.
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise DevOps transformations.
- Proven track record improving engineering performance using DORA metrics or equivalent frameworks.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience leading cloud platform modernization initiatives.
- Experience implementing observability and reliability engineering practices.
- Practical experience delivering enterprise AI solutions with governance and security controls.
- Experience working within regulated or enterprise environments is highly desirable.
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