Principal Platform Engineer

Our client builds and operates LEO satellites for RF data collection and analysis. As a member of the Platform Engineering team, you will enable fellow team members to build secure, performant, efficient, and cost-effective systems and tools supporting the company's mission. The successful candidate will help shape the next generation platform by providing expert insights to improve the existing system and turn ideas into deployed production capabilities. The Principal Platform Engineer will report to the Director of Platform Engineering, and interface with directors and engineers throughout the Engineering organization.

Responsibilities -

Develop, deploy, and maintain critical infrastructure in AWS for the company's collection, processing, and analytics services.

Provide expert technical guidance and oversight across the entire company's platform architecture.

Collaborate across engineering teams to understand platform requirements, use cases, and functionality.

Design and improve platform architecture to meet the functional needs of the organization and ensure integrity and security of the systems and data.

Troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis on unexpected issues/outages.

Guide and mentor teammates to automate and simplify daily development and deployment processes.

Requirements

M.S. or B.S. in Computer Science or related engineering field or equivalent experience

10+ years professional experience

Broad knowledge of Infrastructure setup, automation and troubleshooting, with specific knowledge of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology stack; particularly deploying and maintaining EKS, EC2, RDS, S3/EBS/EFS.

A deep understanding of basic networking concepts relevant to Platform Engineering troubleshooting, including TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, firewalls, basic routing concepts, and load balancers, with hands-on AWS networking experience

Knowledge of Linux operating systems and installing and configuring security patches, within containers and on servers/virtual machines

Deep understanding of development and security best-practices, utilizing least-privilege concepts for access control

Experience with Software/Systems Operations, to include managing and troubleshooting production systems

Experience deploying and configuring applications to run on Kubernetes clusters using Helm

Familiarity with writing and maintaining terraform modules to deploy infrastructure

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Preferred Skills -

Experience with Kubernetes advanced add-ons such as: ArgoCD, Kyverno, Cilium, and Crossplane

Experience migrating terraform modules to Crossplane compositions

Experience with Keycloak, Okta or other OIDC/SAML-based SSO & Auth services

Experience building and updating secure Docker images to deploy custom applications

Familiarity Metrics & Monitoring tooling (Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, or similar)

Experience with Tableau and Snowflake