Principal Cloud Engineer

NorthAB LLC•Remote work MI, MI

7d•$140,000 - $205,000•Remote

About The Position

The Principal Cloud & AIOps Engineer drives the overall technical architecture, automation, and operational resilience of North's multi-cloud infrastructure. This role leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced cloud native tools to build self-healing, highly scalable systems. Responsible for setting continuous engineering standards, the Principal Cloud & AIOps Engineer ensures that all enterprise infrastructure aligns with strict security requirements, modern AI-driven practices, and performance objectives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, with extensive hands-on experience in AWS.
Deep expertise in Linux systems administration (RHEL, Ubuntu) and enterprise automation.
Production experience using Terraform and Ansible for IaC and configuration management.
Proven experience implementing AIOps frameworks, machine learning models for anomaly detection, or AI-driven observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana AI plugins, Dynatrace).

Nice To Haves

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional) or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (Professional).
Hands-on experience with PCI-DSS compliant infrastructure and security controls.
Experience with multi-cloud deployments (Google Cloud Platform).
Scripting/Programming proficiency in Python, Bash, or Perl.
Experience with AI/ML workflow pipelines, vector data indexing, or deploying AI model workloads in containerized environments (Kubernetes/EKS).

Responsibilities

Architect, optimize, and maintain NAB’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) and multi-cloud environments for maximum availability, disaster recovery, and cost efficiency.
Design and implement AIOps platform capabilities, automated anomaly detection, predictive scaling, and self-healing incident remediation workflows using AI/ML operational tooling.
Establish enterprise-wide standards for IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD automation pipelines to streamline secure software delivery.
Enforce zero-trust network perimeters and maintain strict compliance with industry security frameworks, including PCI Digital Security Standard.
Build telemetry data pipelines (metrics, logs, traces) to aggregate system performance data into intelligent observability engines.
Evaluate, pilot, and deploy generative AI tools and LLM/AI-assisted developer tooling to enhance engineering productivity and cloud cost management.
Work directly with DevOps, Site Reliability, Product Engineering, and InfoSec teams to integrate cloud infrastructure best practices.