Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer

About the position

As a Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer, you will help define best practices, establish cloud vision, mentor teams, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure our cloud infrastructure is robust, secure, scalable, resilient and cost-efficient. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence strategic cloud initiatives and build world-class cloud solutions that enable business agility and long-term innovation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive AWS cloud strategy, ensuring alignment with business and technology goals.
• Provide technical leadership and advocacy, championing cloud-native best practices and innovation.
• Lead and drive architectural decisions, ensuring scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Architect secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain enterprise-wide cloud blueprints, patterns, and frameworks to drive consistency.
• Research and integrate emerging cloud technologies to foster continuous innovation.
• Lead adoption and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Helm.
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines to streamline cloud deployments and operations.
• Implement self-healing and automated failover mechanisms to enhance resilience and reliability.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS, Helm, IAM) for scalability and security.
• Define and enforce best practices for containerized applications and orchestration.
• Improve Kubernetes networking, ingress, and observability solutions to enhance performance.
• Establish and enforce security best practices for AWS environments, including IAM, WAF, Secret Manager, and encryption.
• Implement zero-trust security models and secure multi-account AWS environments.
• Conduct security audits, incident response, and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Deploy and manage monitoring tools (DataDog, Splunk, CloudWatch, Coralogix) to ensure visibility and observability.
• Implement SRE principles to enhance system uptime, reliability, and efficiency.
• Conduct post-mortem analysis and drive continuous improvements in cloud performance.
• Work closely with software developers, system engineers, and security teams to design and implement cloud solutions.
• Provide mentorship, training, and technical leadership to engineering teams.
• Drive industry engagement by sharing expertise through public speaking, contributing to open-source projects, and participating in technical advisory boards.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in IT, with at least 5+ years in AWS cloud engineering and architecture.
• Deep understanding of AWS services, including EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Transit Gateway, and CloudFormation.
• Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS, Helm, Daemon Sets, StatefulSets, Karpenter, external-dns, aws-cni).
• Strong experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, and automation scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell).
• Hands-on experience managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Proficiency in monitoring and logging tools (DataDog, Splunk, Coralogix, CloudWatch).
• Strong networking and security knowledge (DNS, VPC, NAT, Security Groups, IAM).
• Experience designing and developing scalable, production-grade software tools and automation scripts using Python.

Nice-to-haves

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (or equivalent).
• Additional certifications in Kubernetes (CKA), AWS Security, or DevOps are a plus.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits.
• 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan.
• Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs.
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity.
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts.
• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice.