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: GitOps (Argo CD/Flux), secrets management, ingress/mesh, and OPA/Gatekeeper. (MUST) - Observability: OpenTelemetry (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. - FinOps 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 #ParserCommunity. https://parserdigital.com/