Senior Principal Cloud Engineer

• Lead the hands-on design, build, and delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions across AWS and related cloud-native platforms.
• Develop production-ready reference architectures, infrastructure-as-code modules, automation patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and reusable engineering assets that accelerate delivery and improve quality.
• Translate customer mission needs, technical requirements, and operational constraints into working cloud architectures and implementable engineering plans.
• Serve as the senior technical owner for complex cloud migration, modernization, and optimization initiatives, actively contributing to architecture, implementation, troubleshooting, and release readiness.
• Guide engineering teams through the development of cloud-native applications, containerized workloads, serverless solutions, platform services, and Dev Sec Ops  practices.
• Design and implement automation for provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, security controls, and operational recovery.
• Evaluate and make architectural decisions on cloud services, application patterns, data flows, integration approaches, security models, and operational tradeoffs.
• Partner directly with developers, architects, security engineers, program leaders, and customer stakeholders to resolve technical blockers and keep delivery moving.
• Perform hands‑on technical reviews of designs, code, pipelines, infrastructure definitions, deployment patterns, and operational runbooks to ensure engineering excellence.
• Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, performance, cost optimization, observability, and security posture across cloud environments.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads through complex design and implementation challenges while raising the organization’s cloud engineering standards.
• Support solution shaping, technical capture, and growth activities by contributing practical architecture, implementation strategies, estimates, and delivery approaches.

• Active Top-Secret Security Clearance with SCI eligibility
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience managing complex technical projects, programs, or enterprise technology initiatives.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience leading AWS cloud migration and optimization efforts.
• Active AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification, or ability to obtain within 6 months of hire.
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple simultaneous software development programs, technology modernization efforts, or enterprise initiatives.
• Preferred experience with developing solutions using Python or similar programming languages
• Experience deploying and managing container-based applications using Kubernetes and serverless technologies
• Experience with software development tools, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and CI/CD processes and pipelines
• Proven ability to balance technical leadership with sound business judgment to drive customer-focused decisions.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience engaging with senior executives, customer leadership, and technical teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.

Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud solutions on AWS, with a strong focus on automation, CI/CD processes, and cloud-native application development. Proven ability to lead complex technical projects and mentor engineering teams while ensuring high standards of quality and security.

• AWS Cloud Migration
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• Container-Based Application Deployment
• Technical Project Management

• Cloud Architecture
• Automation Patterns
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Python Programming
• Kubernetes
• Serverless Technologies
• Technical Reviews
• Security Controls
• Operational Recovery
• Data Flows

• Exceptional Communication
• Stakeholder Management
• Analytical Problem-Solving
• Decision-Making
• Mentoring

• Top-Secret Security Clearance
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

• Cloud Solutions
• Technical Leadership
• Enterprise Technology Initiatives
• Software Development Programs
• Technology Modernization

• AWS
• Cloud-Native Platforms
• Dev Sec Ops  Practices
• Monitoring Tools
• Deployment Patterns