Principal Platform Engineer

Principal Platform Engineer

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, Software Engineering.

What You’ll Contribute

• Cloud AWS and Infrastructure Automation;

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

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

• Automation and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment;

• 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

• Observability & IDP;

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

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

• Technical Leadership;

• 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 tooling and automation

• Experience with Grafanna, OTEL, and Backstage

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and influence architectural decisions across engineering teams

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical

• Background in SRE or Software Engineering practices and principles.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or relevant experience

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional)

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values:  Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.

• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.

• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.

• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics.  You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

•    Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.

•    Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

•    Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career.  Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!

Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers

FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.

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Experience Level

Senior Level