Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

Salem Five Bank•Salem, MA

8h•$138,082 - $234,740•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 role designs, implements, and operates Azure platform services and provides technical ownership across Microsoft and hybrid infrastructure platforms. This position requires the ability to work in the Salem, Massachusetts office. The engineer develops reusable platform standards and automation, leads backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and cyber-resilience engineering, and manages the availability, capacity, performance, security, patching, and lifecycle of cloud and on-premises platforms. The role also evaluates emerging cloud and platform technologies and collaborates with IT leadership, business partners, technology teams, and vendors on planning, cost optimization, IT service management, and regulatory compliance. The position calls for a bachelor's degree in a relevant field and/or substantial related experience, with an equivalent combination of education and experience also accepted. Eight or more years of progressively responsible systems, cloud, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience is required, including at least five years of hands-on Microsoft Azure experience. Relevant Microsoft Azure certification is preferred; additional cloud, security, automation/DevOps, ITSM, or infrastructure certifications are beneficial. Prior management experience will be helpful and strongly considered.

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, including the ability to balance reliability, security, cost, technical debt, and business needs.

Nice To Haves

Chef/Puppet configuration-management experience is preferred.
Rubrik is strongly preferred; preferred experience includes administration, retention policy design, Cloud Vault/archive, SQL-aware protection, recovery testing, and cyber recovery.
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 another regulated-industry experience; familiarity with ITIL and SRE/platform-engineering practices.
Prior management experience will be helpful and strongly considered.
Relevant Microsoft Azure certification preferred; additional cloud, security, automation/DevOps, ITSM, or infrastructure certifications are beneficial.

Responsibilities

Serve as the 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 the 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.