Principal Engineer - Cloud Platform

GuideWell • Jacksonville, FL

4d • $130,000 - $211,300 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Principal Cloud Platform Engineer builds and operates the foundational cloud environment that GuideWell's application teams build on as the company migrates off its existing data centers. This role owns the landing zone, multi-account structure, and Terraform module library across commercial and GovCloud partitions, including automated account vending, guardrails, and centralized logging and monitoring. The engineer defines reference architectures and self-service patterns, reviews application and integrator designs against platform standards, and represents the platform in governance forums.

Requirements

• 8+ years related work experience. Experience Details: Building and operating a cloud infrastructure/platform engineering team in an AWS or Azure multi-account environment including hands-on experience with landing zone design.
• Hands-on Terraform skills, including reusable modules, state management, and pipeline-driven deployment.
• 1+ year(s) leadership experience including direct supervisory experience, project team leadership, training, coaching, auditing, or providing day-to-day direction to team members
• Related Bachelor's degree required
• Working knowledge of cloud identity management, federation, and short-lived credential patterns.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals and encryption services.

Nice To Haves

• AWS Cloud Certifications
• Azure Cloud Certifications
• VMware exit or large data center migration experience.
• AWS GovCloud, including partition boundaries, service parity gaps, and separate account structures.
• Kubernetes, OpenShift, or EKS experience.
• FedRAMP Moderate or High environments.
• Policy as code using Open Policy Agent, Sentinel, or equivalent.
• Healthcare, financial services, or other regulated industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the landing zone: Organizations structure, OU model, account vending, guardrails
• Build and maintain the Terraform module library and platform CI/CD pipelines
• Lead the platform engineering team: set technical direction, assign and review work, mentor engineers, develop skills
• Define reference architectures and enable application teams to self-serve
• Review designs, author ADRs, and represent the platform in governance forums
• Set up centralized logging and configuration monitoring using CloudTrail, Config, and CloudWatch.
• Detect and remediate configuration drift across accounts.
• Build automated account vending using Control Tower and Account Factory for Terraform.
• Build and maintain the Terraform module library that other teams consume, including versioning and testing.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and global travel health insurance
• Income protection benefits: life insurance, short- and long-term disability programs
• Leave programs to support personal circumstances
• Retirement Savings Plan including employer match
• Paid time off, volunteer time off, 10 holidays and 2 well-being days
• Additional voluntary benefits available; and a comprehensive wellness program
• competitive pay
• opportunities for incentive or commission compensation
• regular annual reviews with pay for performance considerations for base pay increases

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal