Principal Platform Engineer
ThoughtWorks3 days ago
Singapore (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Advise senior client executives on enterprise infrastructure strategy, platform engineering, and cloud transformation roadmaps.
- Lead architectural design and implementation of enterprise-scale hosting platforms, cloud-native environments, and resilient infrastructure systems.
- Champion DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, continuous delivery, and Site Reliability Engineering practices.
- Assess legacy ecosystems and develop modernization roadmaps addressing architectural constraints, vulnerabilities, and scalability bottlenecks.
- Establish DevSecOps frameworks incorporating secrets management, compliance controls, and software supply chain security.
- Manage strategic technical and operational risks and align architecture decisions with client business goals.
- Lead adoption of AI-assisted infrastructure automation, self-healing architectures, and multi-cloud telemetry capabilities.
- Mentor lead and senior infrastructure engineers and foster an inclusive technical culture.
- Collaborate with business development, marketing, and capability development teams to shape the cloud and infrastructure practice.
- Establish observability standards covering distributed tracing, centralized logging, application metrics, and self-healing systems.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in platform engineering, legacy modernization, and cloud architecture across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation, configuration management, and CI/CD delivery pipelines.
- Experience with enterprise networking, platform vulnerability management, zero-trust security, and software supply chain security.
- Hands-on experience designing observability systems, multi-cloud resilience, and Site Reliability Engineering practices.
- Ability to advise CTO, CIO, VP of Engineering, and other executive stakeholders while supporting engineering teams technically.
- Strong mentoring, leadership, organizational-change, stakeholder-alignment, architectural decision-making, and operational-risk management skills.
- Commercial and strategic acumen, including experience shaping program scope, supporting pre-sales technical strategies, and crafting client proposals.
- Singapore citizenship or Singapore permanent residency is required due to project security-clearance requirements.
Benefits
- Career development supported by interactive tools, development programs, and teammates focused on employee growth.
- Inclusive, collaborative, non-hierarchical culture emphasizing transparency, feedback, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
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About ThoughtWorks
Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that designs and builds custom software, data platforms, and cloud-native systems for enterprises across industries. Its services-based model spans product discovery, agile delivery, platform modernization, and advisory on digital transformation and AI. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Chicago, it listed on Nasdaq in 2021 (TWKS) and remains backed by private-equity firm Apax Partners.