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Description Ciklum· Via Himalayas

Principal Platform Engineer

Brazil, United StatesFull-timeExecutiveRemote

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Classified 11/14/2026
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Role Overview

Ciklum is looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to join our team in Brazil. We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live. About the role: As a Principal Platform Engineer, you'll become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experience of tomorrow. The company builds software for commercial real estate. This isn't general cloud engineering, you will actually built agentic-platform infrastructure before, not just traditional cloud architecture. Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

Responsibilities: • Own platform and cloud architecture • Define and evolve platform architecture across AWS, including networking, compute, storage, and environment strategy • Drive cloud modernization initiatives (migration, re-platforming, standardization of deployment patterns, scalability and resilience improvements) • Create reference architectures and guardrails that enable autonomy while improving consistency and operational quality • Establish reliability and operational excellence • Set reliability standards and practices (SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, capacity planning, incident response and postmortems) • Improve observability and operational readiness (monitoring, alerting, tracing, dashboards, runbooks) to reduce MTTR and recurring incidents • Identify systemic bottlenecks (latency, throughput, resource utilization, toil) and lead cross-team initiatives to address them • Establish and evangelize best practices: design docs, architecture reviews, coding standards, testing strategy, CI/CD quality gates, production readiness • Mentor senior engineers, tech leads, and emerging technical leaders; coach teams through complex designs and tradeoffs • Create reusable patterns and “golden paths” (templates, libraries, tooling) that make the right way the easy way

Qualifications

Requirements: • Platform, infrastructure, DevOps engineering with direct production ownership on AWS • IaC: Deep OpenTofu/Terraform proficiency: module authoring, state management, workspace strategy, remote backends, and CI/CD integration • Kubernetes: Strong Kubernetes operations: EKS and/or AKS cluster lifecycle, Helm, admission controllers, RBAC, network policies, and autoscaling • Observability & SRE: Hands-on observability experience with two or more of: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry — including SLI/SLO definition and alert engineering • CI/CD: CI/CD platform experience: GitHub Actions pipeline authoring, reusable workflow design, and container build/scan pipeline ownership • GitOps: GitOps: ArgoCD or Flux for Kubernetes continuous delivery; progressive delivery patterns (canary, blue-green) • IDP: IDP experience: Backstage or equivalent developer portal, GitHub, scaffolding templates, service catalog design, or self-service provisioning tooling

Key Skills & Tags

Principal-Platform-Engineer · Platform-Engineer · Cloud-Engineer · DevOps-Engineer · Site-Reliability-Engineer

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