Platform Principal Engineer

This position allows you to join a fast-growing technology organisation focused on the critical migration and architectural evolution of our .NET services from AWS to Azure. If you are passionate about cloud-native transformation and want to lead the shift toward asynchronous, high-scale architectures, this opportunity is for you.

Role Summary

As an Azure Principal Platform Engineer, you will act as the authoritative Subject Matter Expert (SME) to help a major fintech architect, bootstrap, and build from scratch an enterprise-grade, multi-tenant AKS platform on a greenfield Azure landing zone. Crucially, you will guide the establishment of an internal platform team, designing the platform operating model and upskilling in-house engineers along the way.

You will also collaborate to upskill the in-house team along the way. The Impact You'll Make: Architect and Bootstrap: Design and provision a greenfield, highly-scalable, multi-tenant AKS platform from the ground up (focusing on underlying cluster architecture, not just workload deployment). Act as the Kubernetes Reference (SME): Serve as the authoritative internal expert for the vast Kubernetes ecosystem, filling a critical knowledge gap and guiding our long-term architectural direction.

Establish a Platform Operating Model: Help structure and establish an Internal Developer Platform (IDP), defining how the new platform team will interact with and empower developer teams through self-service capabilities. Upskill and Mentor: Transition the in-house engineering team into a high-performing internal platform team throughout the platform build process.

Observability: Design and implement enterprise-grade logging, metrics, and tracing for Kubernetes at scale. IaC Leadership: Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code to a senior standard, taking charge of state strategy, module design, and drift management. Technology Stack (Main Technologies): Azure Core: Multi-subscription landing zones, hub-and-spoke networking, Entra ID, Azure Policy, Private Link, Key Vault, Azure RBAC.

(MUST) AKS Platform Architecture: Building strict multi-tenant environments, logical isolation (namespaces/RBAC), network policies, resource quotas, upgrade strategies, node pools, and workload identity. (MUST) Advanced Kubernetes Ecosystem: Deep understanding of control plane mechanics, custom resource definitions (CRDs), and operators.

(MUST) IaC : Terraform / Open Tofu module design. (MUST) Kubernetes Engineering : Git. Ops (Argo CD/Flux), secrets management, ingress/mesh, and OPA/Gatekeeper. (MUST) Observability : Open. Telemetry (MUST) Tooling: Spacelift, Atlantis, or Terraform Cloud (Desired) Governance : EPAC (Enterprise Policy as Code) (Desired) What You'll Bring To Us: Recent, hands-on experience operating multi-cluster AKS in production environments, either multi-region or multi-tenant.

Proven experience building and architecting complex Kubernetes platforms from scratch. Experience with Kubernetes platform engineering, including ingress and service mesh, OPA / Gatekeeper policy, secrets management, and progressive delivery. Strong security awareness, displaying comfort with CAF / ALZ patterns, least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, and policy-as-code.

Experience working with regulated or financial services workloads on Azure. Fin. Ops instincts for managing AKS and networking costs effectively. What We'll Offer You In Return: The chance to join an organization with triple-digit growth that is changing the paradigm of how software products are built. The opportunity to form part of an amazing, multicultural community of tech experts.

A highly competitive compensation package. A flexible working environment. Medical insurance. Come and join our #Parser. Community. https://parserdigital.com/