Principal Cloud Engineer
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Remote work flexibility across the United States (excluding Alaska)Full-TimePrincipal
Salary$160,000–$190,000 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerKubernetesAzureCI/CDTerraformNetworking
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in cloud, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including senior or principal-level responsibility
- Deep expertise in cloud fundamentals such as IAM, networking (VPC/VNet), DNS, load balancing, compute, and storage
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure, including private networking, Entra ID, and related cloud-native services
- Proficiency in Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tools (Bicep, CloudFormation)
- Experience with CI/CD systems, Git workflows, and automation pipelines
- Strong containerization experience, particularly Docker and Kubernetes environments
- Ability to design and operate cloud infrastructure supporting AI/ML workloads and data-intensive systems
- Experience defining operational standards such as SLOs, observability, incident management, and production readiness
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence without formal authority
- Experience with cloud governance, security frameworks (SOC2, PCI, CIS), and enterprise architecture practices
Responsibilities
- Design and implement enterprise cloud reference architectures, standards, and patterns that ensure scalability, security, and consistency across environments
- Build and maintain cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS, including networking, identity, compute, storage, and platform services
- Develop private networking architectures such as hub-and-spoke models, DNS strategies, and secure connectivity frameworks
- Architect and support container platforms and workloads, including Kubernetes-based environments for application and AI/ML services
- Establish Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform and develop reusable modules, templates, and CI/CD pipelines
- Build and enforce reliability engineering standards, including SLOs, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and production readiness criteria
- Define governance frameworks for cloud adoption, security controls, cost optimization, and architectural decision-making
- Create and validate proof-of-concept implementations to establish scalable enterprise standards
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across cloud, DevOps, and platform teams
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