Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

One Salem Green•Salem, MA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Salem Five is hiring a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to provide senior, hands-on engineering and technical ownership for cloud, infrastructure, and production platforms. The role designs, implements, and operates Azure services and Microsoft infrastructure, while developing reusable standards and automation through Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, scripting, APIs, and CI/CD. It also leads backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and cyber-resilience engineering and testing, and manages the lifecycle, availability, capacity, performance, patching, security, and technical currency of cloud and on-premises platforms. The engineer evaluates emerging cloud, automation, AI, and platform-engineering capabilities for security, maturity, cost, value, and supportability. The role collaborates with IT leadership, business partners, technology teams, and vendors, and supports budgeting, licensing, capacity planning, vendor management, cloud cost optimization, ITSM, and regulatory compliance. The position requires the ability to work in Salem, Massachusetts.

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.
Ability to work in the Salem, Massachusetts office.

Nice To Haves

Chef or Puppet configuration-management experience is preferred.
Rubrik experience is strongly preferred.
Rubrik administration experience, including 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 other regulated-industry experience; familiarity with ITIL and SRE/platform-engineering practices.
Prior management experience.
Relevant Microsoft Azure certification.
Additional cloud, security, automation/DevOps, ITSM, or infrastructure certifications.

Responsibilities

Serve as a 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.