Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

Overview

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Serves as the senior technical leader for AWS cloud platform strategy, driving transformational initiatives across the organization's multi-account AWS Landing Zone environment. Defines the technical vision and long-term roadmap for cloud platform services, working closely with IT leadership and Technical Product Owners to align platform capabilities with business objectives. Establishes enterprise-wide standards, architectural patterns, and best practices for AWS infrastructure automation using Type Script, Terraform, and Git Lab.

Provides hands-on technical leadership on complex architecture challenges while influencing strategic decisions that impact multiple IT teams and the entire application development population across hybrid cloud environments.

• Define and drive the technical vision and multi-year strategic roadmap for AWS cloud platform services in partnership with IT leadership and Technical Product Owners.
• Architect enterprise AWS infrastructure, designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions for complex business requirements.
• Establish and evangelize cloud platform standards, architectural patterns, and best practices across the organization.
• Lead project implementations and provide technical guidance on high-impact, cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple IT teams.
• Drive adoption of platform capabilities and infrastructure patterns across application development teams, ensuring consistent and efficient cloud utilization.
• Architect sophisticated multi-account AWS Landing Zone solutions using Control Tower, Organizations, and advanced governance frameworks.
• Design and implement complex serverless architectures leveraging Lambda, Step Functions, Event Bridge, API Gateway, and related AWS services.
• Develop advanced infrastructure-as-code frameworks and reusable modules using Type Script, Terraform, and Cloud Formation Stack Sets.
• Lead hybrid cloud architecture initiatives, defining integration patterns and connectivity strategies between on-premises and AWS environments.
• Collaborate with Security, Network, Compliance, and Application Architecture teams to establish enterprise-wide cloud governance and security standards.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in solving complex platform challenges, including performance optimization, scalability, and disaster recovery.
• Drive platform innovation by evaluating and prototyping emerging AWS services, cloud-native technologies, and industry best practices.
• Mentor Lead Engineers and senior team members, elevating technical capabilities across the Cloud Platform Engineering team.
• Represent the platform team in executive technical forums, communicating strategy, progress, and recommendations to IT leadership.
• Shape product backlog priorities and influence feature development based on enterprise needs and technical dependencies.
• Lead major cloud migration and modernization programs, defining migration strategies and transformation roadmaps.
• Establish and track platform engineering metrics, KPIs, and success criteria aligned with business outcomes.
• Build relationships with AWS account teams and leverage AWS expertise to solve complex technical challenges.
• Drive cost optimization initiatives at scale, establishing Fin Ops practices and cost governance frameworks across hundreds of accounts.
• Ensure platform decisions support compliance requirements, regulatory standards, and enterprise risk management objectives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science) and requires deep functional and Centene specific knowledge with 6 – 8 years of related experience. Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.

• Expert-level knowledge of AWS cloud services, architecture patterns, and platform design across all major service categories.
• Extensive hands-on experience architecting and implementing large-scale AWS Landing Zone environments with Control Tower managing 100+ child accounts.
• Advanced programming expertise in Type Script for building sophisticated infrastructure automation and platform tooling.
• Deep expertise in Terraform including advanced state management, module design, and enterprise-scale implementations.
• Knowledge of Cloud Formation, Stack Sets, and cross-account deployment patterns.
• Proven experience designing and implementing complex serverless architectures using Lambda, Step Functions, Event Bridge, API Gateway, and related services.
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