Platform Principal Engineer

Responsibilities

• 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).
• Serve as the authoritative internal expert for the vast Kubernetes ecosystem, filling a critical knowledge gap and guiding our long-term architectural direction.
• 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.
• Transition the in-house engineering team into a high-performing internal platform team throughout the platform build process.
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code to a senior standard, taking charge of state strategy, module design, and drift management.

Preferred

• Experience working with regulated or financial services workloads on Azure.

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.

Observability

Design and implement enterprise-grade logging, metrics, and tracing for Kubernetes at scale.

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.

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/