** Please note that Raleigh, NC would be the preferred location for this role. We are open to hiring on a remote basis in the United States, with the understanding that the selected individual will work a U.S. eastern time zone schedule. **About the Role:
As a Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer, you will design, build, and guide secure, scalable AWS cloud platforms and cloud-native solutions. You will partner with engineering, security, architecture, and product teams to implement infrastructure automation, Kubernetes and serverless patterns, observability, and resilient operating practices. This role combines hands-on cloud engineering with technical leadership, mentoring, and practical architectural guidance that supports business agility, reliability, and cost-effective innovation.
Requirements- 10+ years of engineering or IT experience, with 5+ years focused on AWS cloud engineering, automation, platform engineering, or cloud architecture.
- Strong hands-on experience with core AWS services, including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, EKS, CloudWatch, and Route 53.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor) in day-to-day development, code review, and platform work - and a demonstrated ability to enable and upskill other engineers in their adoption.
- Experience designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or similar tooling.
- Strong scripting or programming skills using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages to automate cloud operations and integration workflows.
- Knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, and GitOps practices using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Azure DevOps, or comparable platforms.
- Experience with containers and Kubernetes-based deployment patterns, including Docker, EKS, Helm, service networking, and autoscaling concepts.
- Solid understanding of AWS networking concepts, including VPC design, subnets, routing, security groups, load balancing, DNS, and hybrid connectivity patterns.
- Knowledge of cloud security and compliance practices, including IAM least privilege, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and policy guardrails.
- Experience with observability and SRE practices, including monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, runbooks, and operational readiness reviews.
- Experience supporting cloud data services and storage patterns such as RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, caching, backup, and lifecycle management.
- Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and mentoring skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.
- Experience with platform engineering Internal Developer Portal (IDE) or self-service cloud development environments that help teams design, provision, deploy, and operate cloud infrastructure through governed workflows.
Responsibilities- Design, build, and maintain secure, highly available AWS environments optimized for reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Implement reusable AWS infrastructure patterns across compute, networking, storage, identity, containers, serverless, and database services.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code modules, templates, and pipelines that support consistent provisioning and deployment practices.
- Develop and maintain internal enablement resources - playbooks, templates, workshops that accelerate team adoption of AI-assisted engineering across the engineering organization.
- Build and support Kubernetes and container-based workloads on AWS, including EKS deployment patterns, Helm-based releases, ingress, autoscaling, and observability integrations.
- Champion the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across the team, identifying high-value use cases, curating tooling, and building enablement resources that raise the engineering floor.
- Partner with application, security, architecture, and operations teams to modernize workloads and improve cloud-native delivery practices.
- Implement security controls and operational guardrails, including least-privilege IAM, encryption, secrets management, network segmentation, and compliance-aligned practices.
- Improve cloud operations through monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, runbooks, automated remediation, and continuous reliability improvements.
- Review cloud designs and changes against AWS Well-Architected principles, internal standards, and production readiness expectations.
- Troubleshoot complex cloud, platform, networking, deployment, and performance issues across AWS environments.
- Mentor engineers on AWS, Kubernetes, automation, security, and platform engineering best practices while promoting continuous learning.
- Communicate technical recommendations clearly to engineering partners, product stakeholders, security teams, and leadership.
Preferred Qualifications:- AWS Associate or Professional-level certification, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, or comparable cloud/platform certification.
- Experience building reusable Infrastructure as Code modules, golden paths, templates, or self-service provisioning patterns for engineering teams.
- Experience with AWS multi-account, landing zone, or account governance patterns using services such as AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM Identity Center, or related guardrail capabilities.
- Experience with serverless and event-driven AWS architectures using services such as Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, or Kinesis.
- Experience with observability platforms and operational tooling such as CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Splunk, or comparable monitoring and logging solutions.
- Familiarity with cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, tagging strategies, and FinOps practices.
- Experience supporting data, analytics, AI, or machine learning workloads on AWS is a plus.
- Experience with AWS AI/ML services including Bedrock, SageMaker, or related managed AI services - particularly in designing the infrastructure and operational patterns that support AI workload deployment at scale.
Work in a way that works for youWe promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous well-being initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
Working for youWe know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
- 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
- Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
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U.S. National Base Pay Range: $115,400 - $192,300. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.
