Principal Platform Engineer

• Define and evolve the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for an AWS cloud platform
• Design and build scalable, secure, resilient, and reusable platform capabilities
• Develop self-service tooling and services to improve developer productivity
• Drive automation across infrastructure, application delivery, operational processes, and platform management
• Establish platform standards, engineering patterns, and best practices
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and operational efficiency
• Reduce engineering friction and accelerate software delivery
• Establish engineering principles and guardrails for security, reliability, and governance
• Lead complex platform initiatives from discovery and architectural design through implementation and operational adoption
• Influence engineering teams and senior stakeholders on platform strategy and technology choices
• Mentor and develop engineers and promote strong platform engineering practices
• Champion automation, ownership, continuous improvement, and operational excellence

Requirements

• Significant experience designing and operating internal developer platforms at scale
• Experience building reusable platform services, tooling, and self-service capabilities
• Experience applying platform-as-a-product principles
• Experience establishing standards and paved-road approaches
• Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud-native architectures
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, identity, and security
• Experience making architectural trade-offs across reliability, scalability, performance, cost, and developer experience
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automated cloud provisioning
• Experience with CI/CD and automated software delivery
• Experience automating operational processes and platform lifecycle management
• Experience establishing repeatable, standardised engineering workflows
• Experience designing for resilience, fault tolerance, observability, and operational excellence
• Experience applying SRE principles and practices
• Experience in performance analysis, capacity planning, scalability engineering, and proactive reliability improvement
• Experience establishing service-level objectives, monitoring, alerting, and operational practices
• Experience providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams or a wider engineering organisation
• Ability to influence architecture and technical direction without relying solely on organisational authority
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives and driving decisions through ambiguity
• Experience mentoring senior and developing engineers and creating a culture of knowledge sharing and technical excellence

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and operating scalable, secure, and resilient AWS cloud platforms while applying platform-as-a-product principles. Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and establish best practices for operational excellence and automation.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• AWS Cloud Platform Architecture
• Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD Automation
• Platform-as-a-Product Principles
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Practices

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Cloud Infrastructure
• Distributed Systems
• Networking
• Security
• Performance Analysis
• Capacity Planning
• Scalability Engineering
• Operational Excellence
• Monitoring and Alerting
• Fault Tolerance

Soft Skills

• Technical Leadership
• Mentoring
• Influencing Stakeholders
• Knowledge Sharing
• Continuous Improvement

Industry Keywords

• Platform Engineering
• Cloud-Native Architectures
• Engineering Workflows
• Service-Level Objectives
• Operational Practices

Tools & Technologies

• Automated Cloud Provisioning
• Self-Service Tooling
• Engineering Standards
• Operational Processes
• Developer Productivity Tools