Principal Cloud Platform Engineer
Core
Define and drive governance models and automation strategies for cloud infrastructure to enable self-service, secure, and cost-aware provisioning for engineering teams.
Role type
Principal Cloud Platform Engineer (Infrastructure & Governance)
Builds
Self-service infrastructure pathways, policy-as-code guardrails, reusable IaC modules, and developer platform tooling.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / DevOps / Platform Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Cloud platform expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Pulumi), Policy-as-code (OPA/Sentinel), Cloud cost management (FinOps), CI/CD integration, Observability tooling
Preferred skills
AI-native tooling for infrastructure, Multi-cloud experience
Technologies
Terraform, Pulumi, OPA, Sentinel, AWS Config, Service Control Policies
Responsibilities
Define and enforce policy-as-code standards for tagging, naming, encryption, and access boundaries; Establish guardrails to prevent drift from approved patterns; Automate environment provisioning, drift detection, and lifecycle management; Develop golden paths for infrastructure provisioning and service deployment; Partner on developer platform tooling integrations (CI/CD, container registries, observability)
Seniority
Principal, strategy & mentorship