Principal Cloud Engineer - AWS Infrastructure & Solutions

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Job Description:

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers' toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You'll Make in this Role

As a Principal AWS Cloud Engineer, you serve as a senior technical authority in designing, building, and optimizing secure, scalable, and compliant AWS cloud solutions. This role is deeply hands-on while also influencing enterprise architecture, operational strategy, and best practices across the organization.

The ideal candidate combines expert-level AWS technical skills with a strong understanding of healthcare compliance and operational demands, working closely with engineering, security, and product teams to deliver mission-critical platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Engineering

• Design, implement, and optimize AWS infrastructure to meet high availability, performance, and security requirements.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Cloud Formation, Terraform, or AWS CDK.
• Architect hybrid cloud and multi-region environments that integrate seamlessly with on-prem systems.
• Lead proof-of-concepts for emerging AWS services and guide their adoption.

Operational Excellence

• Develop and implement monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies (Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Open Search, Prometheus/Grafana).
• Ensure robust disaster recovery, backup, and failover capabilities.
• Implement performance tuning and cost optimization measures across AWS workloads.

Healthcare & Compliance

• Design solutions that comply with HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and other relevant frameworks.
• Apply security-by-design principles using AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM), VPC security, KMS encryption, and private networking.
• Partner with compliance teams to support audits and certifications

Technical Leadership (Non-Manager)

• Serve as the go-to AWS technical expert for complex engineering initiatives.
• Mentor engineers in cloud architecture, automation, and Dev Ops practices.
• Influence enterprise AWS strategy and standards without direct people management responsibilities.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (Master's preferred).

• 7 years in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering.
• 5 years AWS skills across core services: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, Dynamo
  
  DB, Cloud Front, API Gateway, Cloud Watch, IAM.
• Proven experience designing and deploying mission-critical workloads in regulated industries; healthcare experience preferred.
• 5 years of experience automation experience with Terraform, Cloud Formation, or AWS CDK.
• 5 years with CI/CD, pipelines including Observability and Dev Ops tooling.

In addition to the above requirements, the following are also required:

• Container orchestration expertise (EKS, ECS, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7).
• Experience with serverless architectures and event-driven design.
• Familiarity with AWS cost governance tools and optimization techniques.

Work location: Remote US

Travel:
May include up to 10% domestic

Relocation Assistance:
Is not authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being

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