Senior Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer

LexisNexis • Raleigh, NC

1d • Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer, you will provide technical strategy, deep AWS expertise, and architectural leadership, guiding teams and influencing multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud best practices. The ideal candidate is an expert in AWS, Kubernetes, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and security architectures, with a strong ability to mentor and drive technical decision-making. This is an advanced individual contributor role with a focus on enterprise-level impact, bridging hands-on engineering, architecture, and technical strategy.

Requirements

• 12+ years of IT experience, with at least 7+ years focused on AWS cloud engineering, architecture, and automation
• Deep AWS expertise, including EC2, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, VPC, CloudFormation, IAM, Transit Gateway, and Route 53
• Expert in Kubernetes architecture (EKS, Helm, Daemon Sets, StatefulSets, Karpenter, external-dns, aws-cni)
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise with Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation
• Proficiency in DevOps & automation tools, including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps
• Mastery of AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, and Route 53 latency-based routing
• Deep expertise in security and compliance frameworks (IAM, AWS KMS, AWS Secrets Manager, WAF, AWS Shield)
• Experience designing high-scale, production-grade automation solutions using Python, Bash, or Go
• Proven ability to architect and optimize large-scale AWS environments
• Strong mentoring skills, guiding and upskilling engineers in best practices
• Exceptional communication skills, capable of presenting to executive stakeholders and influencing cloud adoption strategies
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across engineering, security, and operations teams
• Passion for continuous learning and cloud innovation, staying at the forefront of AWS advancements

Nice To Haves

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (Highly Preferred)
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional is a plus

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Cloud Architecture & Design Architect highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable AWS cloud environments, optimizing for security, cost, and performance.
• Define enterprise-wide AWS architectural patterns, frameworks, and best practices to ensure standardization and operational excellence.
• Lead AWS multi-account strategy, implementing AWS Control Tower, Organizations, and IAM governance.
• Architect hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud solutions, integrating on-prem and SaaS platforms with AWS.
• Design and optimize Kubernetes-based microservices architectures (i.e. EKS, Helm, Istio,).
• Lead the implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
• Automate cloud provisioning, configuration management, and infrastructure scaling.
• Enhance self-healing architectures, implementing automated failover, auto-scaling policies, and event-driven automation.
• Review and continue to develop multi-region fail over and high availability (HA) strategies using various AWS services.
• Establish zero-trust security principles, embedding encryption, IAM least privilege, and AWS security automation.
• Implement and manage AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS WAF, AWS KMS, and IAM boundary policies.
• Drive compliance and risk management, ensuring SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR requirements are met.
• Architect secure Kubernetes workloads, leveraging Pod Security Policies, and AWS IAM roles for service accounts.
• Optimize AWS serverless architectures, integrating Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, and EventBridge.
• Improve Kubernetes networking, ingress control, and observability, leveraging AWS ALB, Nginx, and Service Mesh.
• Architect event-driven architectures for real-time applications using AWS Kinesis, SQS, SNS, and DynamoDB Streams.
• Design and implement high-performance cloud storage and database architectures using AWS Aurora, Redshift, DynamoDB, and Elasticache.
• Establish enterprise-wide cloud monitoring strategies, using AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk, and Coralogix.
• Assist in driving SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) principles, enhancing incident response, automated remediations, and operational excellence.
• Develop real-time logging and event correlation to enable predictive analytics and anomaly detection in AWS environments.
• Act as a senior technical authority, mentoring Principal and Senior Cloud Engineers in AWS best practices.
• Lead internal AWS technical reviews, architecture discussions, and AWS Well-Architected Framework assessments.
• Engage in industry events, open-source contributions, and technical blogging, reinforcing cloud engineering excellence within the organization.

Benefits

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption, and surrogacy benefits
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
• In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees