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Deltek · 1 day ago

Sr Principal Platform Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Deltek is a company focused on providing innovative solutions, and they are seeking a Sr Principal Platform Engineer. The role involves designing and building the AI PaaS platform infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, establishing engineering standards, and implementing observability infrastructure for platform health monitoring.

ConsultingEnterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologySoftware

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Design and build the AI PaaS platform infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) including Kubernetes orchestration, service mesh architecture, and container management

Establish platform engineering standards for infrastructure as code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment, and environment management across dev/staging/production

Architect API gateway and service mesh patterns for multi-product integration; design Model Context Protocol (MCP) APIs that enable Startpoint, VantagePoint, Costpoint, Ajera, and ComputerEase to consume AI services

Build developer platform tools including SDKs, CLI tools, internal APIs, and documentation that enable product teams to integrate with AI PaaS efficiently

Implement observability infrastructure using metrics (Prometheus/Grafana), distributed tracing (Jaeger/Zipkin), centralized logging (ELK stack), and alerting systems for platform health monitoring

Design multi-tenancy architecture with secure data isolation, resource quotas, and tenant-specific configuration management

Establish platform SLAs and reliability engineering practices including SLI/SLO definition, error budgets, chaos engineering, and disaster recovery procedures

Qualification

Kubernetes expertiseCloud infrastructure masteryInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD pipelinesAPI gateway architectureObservability infrastructureMulti-tenancy architectureSoft skills

Required

10-15 years of software engineering experience with 5+ years building platforms, infrastructure, or developer tools in principal/staff engineer roles

Kubernetes expertise: Deep experience with Kubernetes at scale including custom operators, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), ingress controllers, and cluster management

Cloud infrastructure mastery: Extensive hands-on experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP including networking (VPCs, load balancers, CDN), compute (VMs, containers, serverless), storage, and managed services

Infrastructure as Code: Expert-level Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi; experience managing complex multi-environment infrastructure deployments

CI/CD pipelines: Deep experience building continuous integration and deployment systems using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD; GitOps workflows

US Citizenship required for this position