Principal Systems Engineer

• Design and build Azure infrastructure using a cloud native approach, leveraging managed services where they meet reliability and cost requirements
• Lead technical execution of migration from an on-premises data center to Azure, including dependency mapping, migration sequencing, and cutover risk management
• Operate and extend the AKS-based platform, including GitOps deployment patterns, namespace isolation, and policy enforcement
• Own and evolve reusable Terraform modules consumed by other engineering teams
• Build and maintain observability coverage across metrics, logs, and alerting
• Apply policy-as-code to enforce security, compliance, and operational standards
• Design and review Identity and Access Management patterns, including workload identity, least-privilege access, and secrets management
• Participate in business continuity and disaster recovery planning, including failover design, RTO/RPO definition, and recovery testing
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline design and standards
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools and evaluate responsible AI-driven platform capabilities
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code/design review, pairing, and informal technical coaching

• 8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering roles, with demonstrated Principal-level scope (technical leadership without formal management)
• Deep hands-on experience with Azure, building cloud native architectures using managed services rather than defaulting to IaaS
• Production experience running and operating Kubernetes at scale, ideally AKS specifically
• Strong GitOps experience (ArgoCD, Flux, or equivalent)
• Experience leading or significantly contributing to a data center-to-cloud migration, including business continuity and disaster recovery planning
• Working fluency in policy-as-code tooling (Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper, or equivalent) for security and compliance enforcement
• Strong Identity and Access Management background: workload identity federation, least-privilege IAM design, secrets management patterns that avoid static credentials
• Experience building and maintaining an observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, or equivalent)
• Solid Terraform experience, including designing reusable modules consumed by other teams
• Practical, current experience using AI-assisted development tools in daily engineering work
• Demonstrated ability to mentor other engineers through review, pairing, or informal technical leadership without formal authority
• Preferred: experience designing or operating hub-and-spoke network architectures in Azure
• Preferred: familiarity with CI/CD pipeline design for multi-team, multi-repo environments
• Preferred: exposure to genuinely AI-driven operational tooling
• Preferred: experience presenting technical tradeoffs to engineering and business stakeholders