Principal Cloud Platform Engineer - Network & Security

Business Unit

Cubic Transportation Systems

Company Details

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people's lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.

Job Details

Principal Platform Engineer – Network & Security

We are seeking an exceptional Principal Platform Engineer to join our growing Platform Engineering team. The right candidate is someone who has deep expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure and a proven track record of building platforms that scale. Your mission will be to provide technical leadership for our platform strategy, architect solutions that enable hundreds of engineers, and drive the evolution of our infrastructure practices. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies and set the technical direction for platform capabilities that power our entire engineering organization.

Your Assignment

• Serve as the technical leader and subject matter expert for one or more platform domains while maintaining broad platform expertise.
• Define and drive the platform engineering roadmap in collaboration with engineering leadership and product teams.
• Architect scalable, secure, and cost-effective AWS infrastructure patterns that become the foundation for all engineering teams.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to solve complex infrastructure challenges and improve platform capabilities.
• Establish platform engineering standards, best practices, and governance models that scale across the organization.
• Mentor and grow Staff and Senior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.
• Represent platform engineering in architecture reviews, security assessments, and strategic planning sessions.
• Drive adoption of emerging technologies and practices that enhance platform capabilities and developer productivity.
• Lead by example in incident response and post-mortem culture, turning failures into platform improvements.

Your Qualifications

Core Platform Engineering Qualifications

Technical Leadership

Strategic Thinking

Collaboration & Influence

Technical Qualifications

Required :

Preferred

Platform Engineering (Network & Security) Focus

Additional Responsibilities

Additional Qualifications

What We Offer

Worker Type

Employee

Skills Required

Go, Vpc, Terraform, Inspector, Route 53, Python, Kubernetes