Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

Who are we? Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet. A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future. Help us challenge assumptions, uncover bias, and remove barriers-because progress starts with fresh ideas. You'll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you-because when you feel valued, you're empowered to do your best work. Job Summary Analyzes business and engineering requirements to determine the feasibility of platform and infrastructure designs within time, cost, scalability, and reliability constraints. Designs, builds, and operates the cloud platform and developer tooling that engineering teams build on top of - providing self-service infrastructure, paved-road workflows, and the operational guardrails that keep large-scale systems secure, performant, and cost-efficient. Acts as a senior technical leader across multiple teams and domains. Responsibilities Requirements Analysis Reviews, analyzes, and gives feedback on platform requirements, capacity/scaling needs, and functional designs Translates product and engineering needs into platform capabilities and self-service tooling Attends and drives requirement-definition meetings with engineering, security, and product stakeholders Platform & Infrastructure Architecture Participates in and leads the architectural review process for cloud and platform initiatives Defines reference architectures, landing zones, and multi-account / multi-region strategies Owns architectural decisions around compute, networking, storage, identity, and data services Platform Design Designs larger platform enhancements, cross-team / cross-system infrastructure, and developer-experience improvements Builds internal developer platforms (IDPs), golden paths, and reusable infrastructure modules Conducts design reviews and provides technical leadership across teams Development / Engineering Develops and maintains infrastructure-as-code, platform services, automation, and integrations Fixes defects, participates in and conducts peer / code reviews Follows and proposes infrastructure, IaC, and operational standards and processes Conducts performance analysis, tuning, and optimization of platform components and cloud spend Quality & Testing Develops unit, integration, and infrastructure tests; defines test strategies for IaC and platform tooling Implements automated validation, policy-as-code checks, and pre-deployment gates Logs, manages, and triages issues; recommends and integrates testing frameworks DevSecOps Defines the roadmap for automation, CI/CD, and tooling, and articulates its value to engineering practices Designs and maintains secure, automated delivery pipelines (build, test, scan, deploy) with GitOps-based workflows Embeds DevSecOps throughout the lifecycle - "shift-left" security via SAST/DAST, dependency and container image scanning, IaC security scanning, secrets detection, and software supply-chain controls (SBOMs, signed artifacts, provenance) Implements policy-as-code guardrails (e.g., OPA/Conftest) and automated compliance gates so security and governance are enforced in the pipeline rather than after the fact Drives infrastructure and pipeline requirements; reviews release planning and deployment lists Ensures quality, security, and completeness of deployments; champions progressive delivery (canary, blue/green, feature flags) to reduce release risk Service Ownership & SLO-Driven Operations Promotes a "you build it, you run it" culture and clear service ownership across engineering teams Defines and operationalizes SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; uses error-budget policy to balance feature velocity against reliability Takes accountability for operational SLAs and the end-to-end health of owned platform services Establishes on-call, incident management, and blameless post-incident rev