Senior Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer

** 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 Our Team
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Lexis Nexis Legal & Professional serves customers in over 150 countries with 11,800 employees globally. We are part of RELX, a provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company leads in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market, enhancing productivity and transforming the business and practice of law. We use ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible approach, prioritizing the best model for each legal use case.

About the Role
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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, Dev Ops, 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
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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 Cloud Formation, 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, Guard Duty, 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 Event Bridge.

• 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 Dynamo
  
  DB Streams.

• Design and implement high-performance cloud storage and database architectures using AWS Aurora, Redshift, Dynamo
  
  DB, and Elasticache.

Observability, SRE, & Cloud Operations Excellence

• Establish enterprise-wide cloud monitoring strategies, using AWS Cloud Watch, 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
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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, Cloud Formation, IAM, Transit Gateway, and Route 53.

• Expert in Kubernetes architecture (EKS, Helm, Daemon Sets, Stateful Sets, Karpenter, external-dns, aws-cni).

• Advanced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise with Terraform, AWS CDK, and Cloud Formation.

• Proficiency in Dev Ops & automation tools, including Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, ArgoCD, Azure Dev Ops.

• Mastery of AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Private Link, and Route 53 latency-based routing.

• Deep expertise in security and compliance frameworks (IAM, AWS KMS, AWS Secrets Manager,…