Principal Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
Tysons, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Listed on 2026-05-30
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing, Systems Engineer
In This Role, You Will:
Lead the evolution of secure, scalable, and highly automated AWS infrastructure that supports both customer‑facing applications and the internal platforms our engineering teams depend on to build and operate software will influence the long‑term direction of our cloud foundation, advance self‑service infrastructure capabilities, and drive modern engineering practices across a global organization. You will play a key role in expanding our AWS‑based platform, including serverless workflows for account provisioning, IAM automation, and core database and storage services.
You will also help identify practical opportunities to apply generative AI to improve developer productivity, internal tooling, and operational efficiency.
- Set architectural direction for core cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities across a multi‑account, multi‑region AWS environment
- Build and improve internal cloud platforms and self‑service workflows that accelerate delivery while strengthening governance and reliability
- Develop automation using technologies such as AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, Python, Type Script, and Chef
- Build infrastructure‑as‑code solutions with AWS CDK to standardize and streamline cloud deployments
- Partner closely with Security, Database, Enterprise Services, and SRE teams across the US, Canada, and India to solve complex cross‑functional infrastructure challenges
- Provide senior technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and hands‑on problem solving
- Identify and implement practical uses of generative AI to improve internal tooling, automation, and speed of execution
- 25% hands‑on engineering and automation development
- 25% code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance
- 25% architecture, planning, and cross‑team technical leadership
- 25% operational support and partnership with internal customers
- 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Dev Ops, SRE, and/or Security Engineering
- Strong experience building automation, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and infrastructure tooling using Python, Type Script, or similar languages
- Proven experience designing and operating AWS infrastructure in high‑scale, multi‑account, multi‑region production environments
- Demonstrated ability to lead technically through influence, architectural clarity, and strong engineering judgment
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, stakeholders, and leadership at multiple levels
- Experience leading technical initiatives across distributed or global teams and helping raise the technical bar of an organization
- Experience building infrastructure‑as‑code solutions using AWS CDK, ideally with Type Script
- Hands‑on experience with serverless architectures and AWS services such as Lambda, Step Functions, IAM, and related platform components
- Experience with configuration management and systems automation using tools such as AWS Systems Manager, Chef, or Ansible
- Experience supporting Windows and Linux environments in enterprise‑scale infrastructure
- Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure administration
- Experience using Active Directory and Group Policy to manage access and system configuration
- Experience building or improving internal developer platforms, self‑service tooling, or cloud governance frameworks
- Experience evaluating emerging technologies and translating them into practical platform improvements
Because Cloud Infrastructure supports a 24x7x365 environment, this role participates in an on‑call rotation. Our global team structure is designed to make this sustainable: the rotation is typically one week approximately every six weeks, with daytime coverage shared across regions and handoff to our India team overnight.
This role follows our current hybrid schedule:
- Work from home on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday
- Work in the office on Wednesday and Thursday
This is an opportunity to influence the cloud foundation of a large‑scale SaaS platform at principal depth. You will help define how infrastructure is built, secured, automated, and consumed across the organization, while partnering with experienced engineers who care deeply about reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement.
If you are motivated by platform strategy, large‑scale cloud architecture, and building systems that enable other engineers to move faster, we would love to hear from you.
We are not able to offer sponsorship for this position.
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