Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

Salem Five Bank•Salem, MA

1d•$158,796 - $269,952•Onsite

About The Position

Salem Five is seeking a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to serve as a senior hands-on engineer and escalation point for complex cloud, infrastructure, and production issues. The position requires the ability to work in the Salem, Massachusetts office. The engineer will design, implement, and operate Azure platform services and provide technical ownership across Microsoft cloud and infrastructure platforms, automation, identity, security, recovery, and hybrid environments. The role also manages platform lifecycle, availability, capacity, performance, patching, security, and technical currency; evaluates emerging technologies; and collaborates with IT leadership, business partners, technology teams, and vendors on planning, cost optimization, IT service management, and regulatory compliance. The role calls for at least eight years of progressively responsible systems, cloud, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience, including five or more years of hands-on Microsoft Azure experience. A bachelor's degree in a related field and/or eight or more years of related experience and training is sought, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. The job offers a salary range of $158,796 to $269,952 and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field and/or 8+ years of related experience and training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
8+ years of progressively responsible experience in systems, cloud, infrastructure, or platform engineering, including 5+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure experience.
Deep knowledge of Azure and Microsoft infrastructure, including Entra ID, Active Directory, Windows Server, DNS, Group Policy, certificates, Microsoft 365 integration, networking, storage, compute, Key Vault, and identity concepts.
Strong PowerShell, scripting, API, and automation experience.
Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and/or Bicep/ARM, source control, and peer-reviewed deployment practices.
Experience with Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or comparable configuration-management tooling.
Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or comparable CI/CD automation.
Strong knowledge of Windows/Linux, virtualization, enterprise storage, containers, backup/recovery, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience.
Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance reliability, security, cost, technical debt, and business needs.

Nice To Haves

Chef or Puppet configuration-management experience is preferred.
Rubrik administration, including retention policy design, Cloud Vault/archive, SQL-aware protection, recovery testing, and cyber recovery; Rubrik is strongly preferred.
VMware vSphere and enterprise compute/storage experience; familiarity with Hyper-V, Azure Local, or other virtualization alternatives.
Experience with Azure Virtual Desktop, SQL PaaS, containers/Kubernetes, application delivery, web applications, APIs, and hybrid networking.
MuleSoft/API management, NinjaOne/Intune, or AWS/GCP exposure.
Banking, financial services, or other regulated-industry experience; familiarity with ITIL and SRE/platform-engineering practices.
Prior management experience is helpful and will be strongly considered.
Relevant Microsoft Azure certification preferred; additional cloud, security, automation/DevOps, ITSM, or infrastructure certifications are beneficial.

Responsibilities

Serve as senior hands-on engineer and escalation point for complex cloud, infrastructure, and production issues.
Design, implement, and operate Azure platform services, including compute, storage, networking, identity, security, and shared services.
Develop reusable platform standards and automation using Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, scripting, APIs, and CI/CD.
Provide technical ownership for Entra ID, Active Directory, Windows Server, DNS, Group Policy, certificates/PKI, Microsoft 365 integration, Azure Virtual Desktop, Key Vault, and SQL platform services.
Lead enterprise backup, recovery, retention, disaster recovery, and cyber-resilience engineering and testing.
Manage lifecycle, availability, capacity, performance, patching, security, and technical currency of cloud and on-premises platforms.
Evaluate emerging cloud, automation, AI, and platform-engineering capabilities based on security, maturity, cost, value, and supportability.
Collaborate with IT leadership, business partners, technology teams, and vendors; support budgeting, licensing, capacity planning, vendor management, cloud cost optimization, ITSM, and regulatory compliance.