DevOps Control Plane Engineer (Crossplane Focus)

We are looking for an experienced engineer to design and build control plane capabilities for cloud-native platforms, with a strong focus on Crossplane. This role involves developing infrastructure abstractions, enabling self-service capabilities, and managing the lifecycle of cloud resources through Kubernetes-native approaches.

Project overview

Our customer is a multinational corporation with more than a century of history and offices in over 180 countries. Their most ambitious goal at the time is to introduce a range of Reduced-Risk Products (RRPs). The target audience is more than 1 billion consumers around the globe. IT platform hosts 700+ applications.

The Platform is a set of services and internet applications that accelerate the development and delivery of software applications by taking care of common SDLC challenges. The Platform provides access and consumption for engineering teams to a set of services, technologies, practices for their development and for operating their application, ensuring a set of compliance and best practices.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience working as a DevOps / Platform Engineer
• 2+ years of experience building AI agents or agent-based systems (Agentic AI)
• Strong experience with AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, RDS, Route53, API Gateway, Lambda)
• Hands-on experience with Terraform (AWS, Kubernetes/Helm, Hashicorp Vault)
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes
• Strong programming skills in Python (scripting, FastAPI, Swagger) and Bash / PowerShell
• Hands-on experience with Crossplane
• Understanding of control plane architecture and platform engineering concepts
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and reusable infrastructure patterns
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab)
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, ELK, etc.)
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)

Nice to Have

• Experience building internal developer platforms (IDP)
• Familiarity with GitOps practices (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments
• Understanding of policy enforcement in platform engineering setups

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement control plane components for managing cloud infrastructure and services
• Build and maintain infrastructure abstractions using Crossplane
• Enable self-service infrastructure provisioning for development teams
• Define and manage composite resources and reusable infrastructure templates
• Integrate Crossplane with AWS services and Kubernetes environments
• Ensure consistency, scalability, and governance of infrastructure provisioning
• Collaborate with platform teams to build and enhance internal developer platforms (IDP)
• Support lifecycle management of infrastructure resources (provisioning, updates, decommissioning)