FICO is a leading global analytics software company seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and evolution of its cloud-native platform infrastructure.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in cloud & platform engineering, DevOps, developer enablement, or infrastructure roles with increasing responsibility.
- Expert-level proficiency with AWS cloud services especially in compute, storage, networking, implementing cloud native services, and developing resilient infrastructure architecture.
- Strong software engineering skills and methodologies.
- Deep Knowledge of AWS EKS or running multiple Kubernetes instances, VPC Configuration, AWS Waf, S3, RDS, and other cloud services.
- Experience with ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, CircleCI, or GitHub Actions.
- Strong hands-on experience with developing golden paths for engineers and managing CI/CD pipelines leveraging GitOps workflows for Kubernetes application delivery.
- Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform for multi-cloud resource provisioning and full stack deployments.
- Proven experience with Kubernetes infrastructure management and service mesh technologies like Istio and API gateway solutions.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, operators, custom resources, and ecosystem tools.
- Advanced programming skills in GoLang and Python for building platform tooling and automation.
- Experience with Grafanna, OTEL, and Backstage.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and influence architectural decisions across engineering teams.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical.
- Background in SRE or Software Engineering practices and principles.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or relevant experience.
Benefits
- Inclusive culture
- Opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally
- Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs
- Engaging, people-first work environment
