Architect – Infrastructure & Policy Automation

Job Description

As a member of an agile scrum team, the Infrastructure Platform Engineering Architect will design and build production-grade platform services that enable developers to provision and operate infrastructure through well-defined APIs and automation. A core responsibility of this role is developing, maintaining, and advancing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities, leveraging tools such as Terraform and policy as code frameworks, to automate infrastructure provisioning, management, and policy.

The architect should be able to craft a vision informed by deep experience and industry best practices to design and integrate platform automation in alignment with enterprise KPIs, and be hands-on contributing to code, documentation, and planning to execute this vision.

This position is ideal for a Platform Engineering Architect who has built and operated backend services and expanded into infrastructure/platform engineering. You will apply software engineering best practices (API design, testing, versioning, reliability, and maintainability) to an internal infrastructure and policy orchestration API, the automation it drives, and IaC modules and workflows. You will also partner closely with infrastructure, security, and developer experience teams to deliver secure, compliant, observable, and scalable capabilities that abstract cloud complexity behind simple, well-documented interfaces.

Candidate Profile

Required Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification
• 8+ years' progressive technology experience with a blend of deep technical knowledge and a customer-focused mindset that includes:
• 5+ years' experience designing, building, and operating backend services and APIs in production (platform, developer tooling, or internal services).
• 5+ years' experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred) and building automation around it (modules, remote state, and versioning).
• 5+ years' experience with Public Cloud technology stacks such as AWS, Azure, GCP or Alibaba.
• 5+ years' experience driving highly technical architecture, and driving outcomes with automation
• 3+ years' experience with CI/CD platforms (Harness preferred) and automating build/test/security/deploy/release pipelines.
• 5+ years' experience designing, building, and operating Git Ops processes.
• 5+ years in an engineering role as a strategic thinker that relates technology solutions to customer use cases
• Hands-on experience designing and developing APIs/services using languages such as Go or Python, including RESTful design, request/response modeling, and service integration.
• Experience designing service contracts and developer-facing interfaces (OpenAPI/Swagger, SDKs/clients, schema evolution, and backward compatibility).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (data structures/algorithms, clean code, design patterns, and code reviews).
• Experience building reliable services (e.g., retries, idempotency, timeouts, rate limiting, circuit breakers) and debugging distributed systems.
• Strong testing discipline (unit/integration tests, contract tests, and CI/CD automation for application code).
• Deep knowledge of infrastructure concepts and cloud fundamentals (networking, IAM, compute, storage), with the ability to collaborate effectively with infrastructure engineers.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex production issues across services and infrastructure.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with workflow orchestration and asynchronous/distributed systems (e.g., Temporal), including retries, idempotency, and failure handling.
• Experience building or contributing to platform services, internal developer platforms (IDPs), or service-oriented architectures that expose infrastructure capabilities via APIs.
• Experience with API security patterns (authentication/authorization, secrets management, and audit logging) and enterprise integration requirements.
• Production experience with observability (structured logging, metrics, tracing), on-call practices, SLOs/SLIs, and incident response.
• Proven experience implementing automated testing frameworks for…