Principal Platform Engineer & Team Lead

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Principal Platform Engineer & Team Lead

Contract

Remote across USA/ Canada

We are building an infrastructure management platform from scratch and we need a Principal Platform Engineer who builds infrastructure, not just designs it. You will own the platform's core infrastructure capabilities:
Terraform modules, Kubernetes clusters, networking, bare metal provisioning, and the automation that makes infrastructure self-service.

• Own infrastructure architecture and design for platform capabilities, ensuring they meet reliability, security, and operational requirements across compute, storage, networking, and IAM domains.
• Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure as code using Terraform, Open Tofu, and similar tools, including module design, state management, and infrastructure automation patterns.
• Define and document golden path workflows for common infrastructure operations, establishing standardized processes for provisioning, lifecycle management, scaling, and decommissioning.
• Architect container, virtualization, and bare metal infrastructure including Kubernetes, CNI, hypervisors, PXE boot, and data center infrastructure.
• Design networking and security infrastructure including VPC architecture, network policies, security groups, load balancing, and multi-region strategies.
• Drive platform engineering standards for infrastructure as code, Dev Ops practices, security hardening, and operational procedures, ensuring they are adopted across teams.
• Mentor and grow infrastructure engineers, providing clear technical direction on platform engineering principles, Dev Ops practices, and infrastructure architecture.
• Continuously improve platform capabilities by identifying infrastructure gaps, evaluating new technologies and practices, and driving adoption of platform engineering principles.

• 10+ years of infrastructure/platform engineering experience, with 4+ years in senior/ staff/ principal roles operating production infrastructure.
• Expert-level Terraform and Open Tofu proficiency - module design, state management, and building reusable infrastructure patterns.
• Deep Kubernetes experience including cluster operations, CNI, storage classes, RBAC, and troubleshooting production issues.
• Strong experience with virtualization - hypervisors, VM lifecycle, and virtualization platform configuration.
• Hands-on bare metal experience including PXE boot, provisioning automation, and hardware lifecycle management.
• Deep Linux expertise - internals, system administration, kernel concepts, file systems, and process management.
• Strong networking knowledge - VPC design, security groups, load balancing, DNS, and firewall configuration.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and their core primitives: compute, storage, networking, and IAM.
• Proficiency with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, or Puppet) and infrastructure automation patterns.
• Experience building observability for infrastructure - metrics, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards.
• Proven ability to own and operate complex infrastructure end-to-end, from design through production.
• Track record of mentoring engineers, setting infrastructure standards, and raising the bar for operational excellence.

• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure with guardrails.
• Multi-cloud or hybrid cloud experience with consistent infrastructure patterns across providers.
• Service mesh and advanced container networking experience (CNI, network policies).
• Data center operations experience including rack layout, cabling, and physical infrastructure.
• Experience with backup, disaster recovery, and snapshot automation strategies.
• Infrastructure security background - hardening, vulnerability management, and secure design.
• Prior experience at infrastructure or platform engineering companies.

Mid-Senior level

Contract

Engineering and Information Technology

IT Services and IT Consulting