Principal Engineer – Platform Engineering & Production Support (contract)

Title: Principal Engineer – Platform Engineering & Production Support

Location: 401 W Las Colinas Blvd Irving, TX

Alternate Locations: Charlotte, NC or Minneapolis, MN

Duration: 12 months

Work Engagement: W2

Work Schedule: 3 days in office/2 days remote

Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits

Summary:

We are seeking a Principal Engineer within the Platform Engineering team. This individual must be Day 1 ready, comfortable operating in fast-paced, production-critical environments, and capable of balancing multiple competing priorities.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) professional with strong hands-on expertise in observability, incident management, and cloud platforms (OpenShift). This role will play a leading part in supporting production systems, preventing outages, and improving system reliability through automation, intelligent monitoring, and modern SRE practices.

Team Overview:

This role supports a critical Platform Engineering team responsible for stabilizing, scaling, and operating applications as they move toward and beyond production release. The team plays a key role post-deployment, ensuring reliability, performance, and operational excellence across a broad application portfolio.

This is not traditional infrastructure support. It is application-focused production engineering, requiring deep technical expertise, proactive issue prevention, and strong ownership of application health in cloud-native environments.

Responsibilities:

• Lead production support efforts across a portfolio of 20 applications, ensuring stability, performance, and rapid issue resolution
• Design, build, and maintain advanced monitoring, alerting, and observability dashboards using tools such as Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics, Prometheus, and SPLOC
• Proactively identify production risks through gap analysis, anomaly detection, and predictive alerting, preventing incidents before they occur
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across distributed microservices environments, driving reduced MTTR through deep technical expertise
• Drive adoption of modern SRE practices, including automation, AIOps, and intelligent monitoring
• Support applications running on OpenShift and cloud-native platforms, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and resiliency
• Collaborate closely with development teams during release cycles, providing production-readiness guidance and operational support
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation, demonstrating urgency, ownership, and accountability during incidents
• Mentor and guide engineers, helping elevate team capabilities in SRE, DevOps, and platform engineering
• Act as a trusted technical leader, able to rapidly shift priorities and manage competing demands in high-pressure environments
  
  

Qualifications:

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• Strong background in platform engineering and production support
• Hands-on experience with:
• Red Hat Linux
• OpenShift and Kubernetes
• Java and Python
• Microservices architectures and Spring Boot
• Experience designing and maintaining observability dashboards, including:
• Grafana
• Splunk
• SPLOC
• AppDynamics
• Experience with observability alerts, incident response, and on-call support, leveraging tools such as:
• AIOps platforms
• ServiceNow
• BigPanda or similar incident management tools
• Experience with:
• React.js
• Apache
• Kafka
• Relational databases
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and microservices-based architectures