Principal Platform Engineer

Your Job

Molex LLC is a leading supplier of interconnect solutions for the automotive, medical, consumer electronics, and datacom industries that link today’s world and solve tomorrow’s challenges. Molex is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to lead the design and implementation of a robust compute strategy. This role is a part of the Developer Enablement and Cloud team responsible for defining, developing, and executing on Developer and Cloud enablement and operations that optimize service delivery and support business strategies for a global Molex One. As such, this person will be responsible for establishing computer strategies for managing applications at scale.

What You Will Do

• Lead the technology strategy of the Developer Enablement Platform supporting business units leveraging this platform.
• Lead platform services (e.g. Argo, Traeffik) and provide support to other tech stacks horizontally within the digital delivery portfolio.
• Ensure that architectural solutions meet performance, scalability, and security requirements.
• Evaluating and recommending new technologies, tools, and processes to improve the ecosystem.
• Conducting architectural reviews and ensuring compliance with best practices and standards.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain Kubernetes clusters (on-prem or cloud-based) to support production and staging environments.
• Partner with developers to containerize applications and provide Kubernetes expertise, while supporting broader team goals in platform operations.
  
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• At least 10 years of hands-on experience working with technologies in a large-scale, multi-platform systems environment
• Proven expertise in platform development, including architecture, scaling, and maintenance of complex systems.
• Strong technical knowledge in areas such as cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP), distributed systems, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with modern programming languages and frameworks (e.g., Java, Python, Node.js, Kubernetes).
• Experience in building developer platforms or tools.
  
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience working in high performing Agile teams that leverage GitLab and GitLab issues to maintain different priorities and governance
• A proven track record of evolving and transforming solutions to support the organizations strategy
• A drive for improvement and an inclination to thoughtfully challenge the status quo
  
  
  

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