Principal Platform Identity Engineer

About the role

<p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="Body Text">AI FactoryOS Operations</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559738":145,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-charstyle="normaltextrun" data-ccp-charstyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"ac0262f4-8a9e-5820-b908-2d943c5f7113|1","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[201342446,"1",201342447,"5",201342448,"1",201342449,"1",469777841,"Calibri",469777842,"Arial",469777843,"Calibri",469777844,"Calibri",201341986,"1",469769226,"Calibri,Arial",268442635,"22",469775450,"normaltextrun",201340122,"1",134233614,"true",469778129,"normaltextrun",335572020,"1",469778324,"Default Paragraph Font"]}">AI FactoryOS is Firmus' proprietary operating system for the AI Factory. It governs GPU telemetry, cooling, power and grid interaction as one integrated layer, so that every Firmus site can be optimised and monitored as a single system.</span></span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"134245417":true}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">AI FactoryOS Operations runs that platform in production and owns the 24/7 reliability of AI FactoryOS, Firmus AI Cloud and the platforms built on them, together with the service levels the estate is measured against.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">The remit is an engineering one. The function builds the guarded automation, remediation and operational tooling that turn manual response into a software-defined capability, and builds and operates the shared services the estate's own operation depends on. The function works closely with the engineering teams that build the platform, supplying the production evidence that shapes what they fix and what they build next.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134245417":true,"335559738":0,"335559739":0}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="Body Text">Principal Platform Identity Engineer</span></span></strong>&nbsp;<br><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="Body Text">Role Summary</span></span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559738":145,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-charstyle="normaltextrun">Firmus runs large-scale, state-of-the-art AI infrastructure built on the latest generation of GPU rack-scale systems and operated as one estate to power the next generation of AI innovation. </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph">The Principal Platform Identity Engineer </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph">builds and operates</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph"> the </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph">trust plane the estate's administrative and privileged access</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph"> depends on: workforce and </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph">privileged</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph"> identity, the internal certificate authority, secrets management, and the just-in-time access model tied to the change record. </span><span data-ccp-charstyle="normaltextrun">This is the trust plane of the platform, the foundation that access, privilege and every service's authentication rest on.</span></span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"134245417":true,"335557856":16777215}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-charstyle="normaltextrun">This is a hands-on principal-level role with deep technical expertise. The trust plane is engineered, not administered: identity, certificates and secrets are provisioned as code, integrated into the delivery pipeline, and designed for rotation and recovery from the outset. The role holds key custody for the estate and carries out-of-hours accountability for the trust plane alongside a peer.

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