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This role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week.

The Senior Principal Cloud & Platform Engineer is a seniorlevel individual contributor responsible for defining, standardizing, and evolving core cloud and platform engineering capabilities used across the enterprise. This role provides deep technical leadership for cloud platforms, engineering standards, and reference implementations that enable application teams to build and operate solutions in a consistent, secure, and scalable manner.

The position operates primarily upstream of delivery execution, focusing on platform design, cloud standards, and technical enablement that reduce complexity and rework across application and migration initiatives. The role partners closely with architecture, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities align to enterprise technology standards and delivery needs.

This role does not carry peoplemanagement accountability and is grounded in handson technical leadership and applied engineering expertise.

Cloud & Platform Engineering Leadership

• Define and influence enterprise cloud and platform engineering strategy, standards, patterns, and technical direction.
• Establish consistent, reusable cloud and platform solutions that can be adopted broadly across application teams.
• Serve as a senior technical authority for cloud platform design decisions, tradeoff analysis, and engineering standards.

Platform Standards & Reference Architectures

• Develop and maintain approved reference architectures, technical patterns, and implementation guidelines for cloudhosted applications.
• Establish opinionated but practical defaults for:
  • Cloud service usage
  • Network and ingress models
  • Identity, access, and secrets management
  • Observability, logging, and telemetry
• Ensure standards are practical to implement and aligned with enterprise security and compliance requirements.

Engineering Enablement

• Enable adoption of modern engineering practices by embedding standards and controls into platform capabilities wherever possible.
• Reduce delivery friction and cognitive load for application teams by providing clear guidance, templates, and reusable components.
• Support consistency across teams while allowing appropriate flexibility for applicationspecific needs.

Upstream Modernization & Migration Support

• Engage early with application modernization and migration efforts to identify platform or architectural constraints.
• Recommend platformaligned remediation and modernization approaches prior to execution.
• Act as a technical advisor to migration and delivery teams without assuming program ownership, delivery tracking, or reporting responsibilities.

HandsOn Technical Contribution

• Participate directly in:
  • Design and architecture reviews
  • Proofs of concept and technical evaluations
  • Platform pilots and targeted engineering efforts
• Validate that platform standards and patterns are implementable and effective in realworld delivery scenarios.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to senior engineers and platform teams.

CrossFunctional Collaboration

• Work closely with:
  • Enterprise and solution architecture
  • Cybersecurity and identity teams
  • Cloud and infrastructure engineering
  • Application engineering leadership
• Ensure platform standards are aligned with enterprise architecture, reliability, and risk management expectations.
• Communicate technical decisions clearly to both engineering audiences and senior technology stakeholders.

• Senior individual contributor role with enterpriselevel technical influence.
• No direct peoplemanagement or budget accountability.
• Accountability is measured through:
  • Platform standard adoption
  • Reduction in duplicated or inconsistent cloud solutions
  • Improved application readiness for cloud and modernization initiatives
  • Technical quality and sustainability of platform decisions

• Combined minimum of 10 years' higher education and/or experience in systems design, management, and/or architecture

• Thorough understanding of the system development and infrastructure lifecycle and architecture, vendor best practices, IT Service Management, and systems design

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Demonstrated expertise in:
  • Cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • CI/CD and automation frameworks
  • Container platforms and orchestration
  • Observability and operational tooling
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams without formal authority
• Experience in largescale or regulated enterprise environments
• Exposure to SRE concepts, reliability engineering, or platform resiliency practices
• Experience developing shared platforms or internal engineering

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