** 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 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.
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,).
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation
- 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.
Security & Compliance Architecture
- 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.
Cloud-Native Technologies & Performance Optimization
- 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.
Observability, SRE, & Cloud Operations Excellence
- 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.
Technical Mentorship & Thought Leadership
- 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.
Requirements:
Technical Expertise
- 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
Preferred Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (Highly Preferred)
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional is a plus
Leadership & Soft Skills
- 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
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
U.S. National Base Pay Range: $118,300 - $219,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.
