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☁️ Principal Platform Engineer – AWS
📍 Bangalore, India
🕒 Full-time | Contract (Consultant)
🏢 Energy Technology / EV Mobility | Cloud & Platform Engineering
Are you a senior cloud architect / platform leader who enjoys owning global, highly available cloud platforms at scale?
We are supporting a global energy and e-mobility technology organization that is building and operating a mission-critical, distributed SaaS platform powering electric vehicle charging infrastructure across multiple regions worldwide.
This role is ideal for a hands-on Principal Platform Engineer who combines deep AWS expertise, architectural leadership, and a strong sense of ownership over platform reliability, security, and scalability.
🚀 What you’ll be doing
- Defining and leading cloud architecture for a global, distributed microservices platform
- Designing, evolving, and securing scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient AWS environments
- Owning end-to-end platform architecture, including IAM and security design
- Championing best practices in resiliency, scalability, observability, and cost optimization
- Leading Kubernetes (EKS) platforms supporting containerized workloads
- Building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Driving platform reliability, incident response, and stakeholder communications
- Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into cloud-ready services
- Mentoring engineers and leading resolution of complex technical challenges
- Staying ahead of emerging cloud and platform technologies, including AI/ML enablement
🎯 What we’re looking for
- 12+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale cloud platforms
- 3+ years in a technical leadership or principal/architect role on AWS
- Strong experience building high-availability SaaS platforms (mandatory)
- Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, CloudFront, EKS/ECS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Transit Gateway)
- Mandatory hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and Terraform
- Strong background in distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures
- Experience working in DevOps / SRE models within Agile environments
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Nice to have
- Experience with IoT platforms
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Pro, DevOps Engineer Pro, Security Specialty)
- Experience with GitOps (Argo CD) and CI/CD automation
💡 Why this role?
- Work on a globally distributed, always-on platform with real-world scale
- High architectural ownership and technical influence
- Opportunity to shape cloud strategy and platform standards
- Purpose-driven environment supporting sustainable energy and e-mobility
📩 Interested?
Please apply directly via the link in this post.
Due to project timelines, shortlisted candidates will be contacted promptly.
Click on Apply to know more.