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About the role
Altana is looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to be the technical authority for the platform our products run on. This is a senior individual contributor role, reporting to the Senior Director of Platform Engineering, for someone who steers architecture across organizational boundaries rather than inside one team's backlog. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure and platforms, including time as the recognized technical authority for a platform other engineering teams depended on
- A background in SRE or platform engineering , with real ownership of systems that other engineers built on top of
- Production experience building and operating environments in AWS and/or Azure at multi-account, multi-environment scale
- Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar tools
- Deep Kubernetes experience , including cluster management, multi-cluster operations, and the platform abstractions built on top of it
- GitOps as your deployment model , with hands-on experience running ArgoCD, Flux, or equivalent in production
More about this role
Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.
Altana is looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to be the technical authority for the platform our products run on. This is a senior individual contributor role, reporting to the Senior Director of Platform Engineering, for someone who steers architecture across organizational boundaries rather than inside one team's backlog.
We operate a broad estate. Multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, a multi-tenant commercial platform, accredited environments including FedRAMP and IRAP, and dedicated sovereign deployments for national customers. The architecture that holds those together determines how fast every product team can ship, how quickly a new customer comes online, and what our infrastructure costs. You will set the direction for it, and you will have real white space to go after the problems you judge to be the most consequential.
You will be a permanent member of the Platform Engineering leadership team alongside our engineering managers, and you will be the person other...
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