Principal Engineer - Platform Engineering/Site Reliability

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity

"As a Principal Platform Engineer, you will lead the design, implementation, and evolution of our cloud-native platform infrastructure. This role will be instrumental in building and maintaining scalable, resilient systems that empower our engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions rapidly and reliably. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise in modern platform engineering practices, SRE & DevOps methodologies, and infrastructure automation." - VP, Cloud Engineering

What you'll Contribute

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud solutions on AWS public cloud platform via Infrastructure as Code.

• Manage infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging Terraform, CloudFormation and GoLang.

• Design and implement Kubernetes-based platform solutions with focus on scalability, reliability, and security.

• Support and maintain large Kubernetes clusters in production environments.

• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

• Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to integrate infrastructure as code practices.

• Develop automation to build and deploy Docker Containers through CI/CD pipelines for engineering teams deploy and test services.

• Write policy & standard validation tests and integrations with Security Scanning software to ensure compliance.

• Implement and support Observability solutions to ensure platform performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Create Dashboards and integrate into Backstage IDP for visibility into system health.

• Provide guidance and mentorship to team members on best practices in GitOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure management.

• Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to integrate infrastructure as code practices across the organization.

What We’re Seeking

• 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. Experience with Crossplane a plus.

• 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