# Principal Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure

Location: Denver, CO (hybrid - Tue/Wed/Thu in office) Reports to: CEO The role Ombud's platform runs production AI workloads for enterprise customers, and we're scaling toward a self-service motion where customers onboard, ingest content, and operate the product without manual implementation. That requires an infrastructure foundation that can handle multi-tenant scale, high reliability, and the unique demands of generative AI workloads - without ballooning the AWS bill. We're hiring a Principal Platform Engineer to own that foundation. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad architectural authority. You will not have direct reports. You will set the technical direction for our cloud infrastructure, partner with engineering on production scaling decisions, and operate the platform with the discipline a SOC 2 / ISO 27001 customer base requires. What you'll own Production Kubernetes (EKS) clusters: capacity planning, node group strategy, gen-AI workload isolation, blast-radius containment. AWS infrastructure end-to-end: RDS, DMS, Kafka (MSK), ECR, networking, IAM, multi-region deployments (including Ireland for EU data residency). Infrastructure-as-code in Terraform -

- **Id**: 658773
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ombud-principal-platform-engineer-kubernetes-cloud-infrastructure>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Denver, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-03T21:50:27Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-06-18
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T21:57:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 164
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5644
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: LLM & Generative AI

## Company

- **Id**: 679982
- **Name**: Ombud
- **Domain**: ombud.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ombud>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 119000
- **Max usd**: 245000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 565

## Technologies

- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Consul** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon Kinesis** — Optional: yes
- **Pinecone** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **Qdrant** — Optional: yes
- **Weaviate** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 163

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-10T21:19:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 5
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.192
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 163
- **Expected fill days**: 21
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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