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.
Qualifications -
- 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
Base Salary Range: $170,000 - $200,000 annually plus 25% annual bonus