Principal Platform Engineer (Cloud)

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end AWS platform architecture, including multi-account organization, Landing Zone, networking, IAM, DNS, certificates and tenancy models.
• Define architecture and technical roadmap for AWS-based ERP environments and SaaS platforms.
• Lead architecture and sequencing for private-cloud/VMware to AWS migration.
• Design and maintain high-quality Terraform modules and Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks.
• Establish standards for CI/CD, GitHub Actions, environment promotion and secrets management.
• Drive reliability, observability, SRE practices and platform cost optimization.
• Design cloud security architecture including IAM, network segmentation, encryption and data governance.
• Ensure cloud platforms support SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and influence architecture decisions across U.S. and India engineering teams.
• Work closely with AWS, consulting partners and third-party technology providers.
• Mentor senior engineers and improve engineering/design-review standards.
• Contribute to AI-assisted and agentic engineering platforms, including guardrails, governance and evaluation frameworks.

Mandatory Skills

• 10+ years of progressive engineering experience with strong hands-on AWS expertise.
• Expert-level experience in AWS Architecture.
• Strong experience with AWS Landing Zone / Multi-Account Architecture.
• Experience with AWS Control Tower or equivalent, SCPs and account vending.
• Expert Terraform / Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Proven experience in large-scale Cloud Migration, especially VMware / Private Cloud to AWS.
• Experience migrating ERP-class or stateful enterprise workloads to AWS.
• Strong programming/scripting experience in Python, Go or similar.
• Strong experience with CI/CD GitHub Actions or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of Cloud Security, SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
• Proven technical leadership experience without formal people-management responsibility.

Preferred Skills

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional / AWS DevOps Engineer Professional certification.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS and account-per-customer architecture.
• Experience with M&A / Private Equity portfolio environments.
• Experience building AI/LLM platforms or agent-based automation.
• Experience working with consulting partners on large cloud programs such as AWS MAP.