Principal Engineer, Cloud Strategy Lead

Responsibilities

• Set and evolve the multi-year technical strategy for cloud tooling, IaC, and developer experience across all five CCOE teams (Foundations, Platforms, Containers, Support, Delivery) and the five Foundations pods (Security & Governance, Fin Ops, Functional Design Engineering & Strategy, Network Engineering, Monitoring).
• Define and govern Terraform code architecture standards: module library curation, versioning, deprecation, contribution patterns, and module quality gates.
• Architect and operate the self-service infrastructure vending platform, including Account Factory for Terraform (AFT), Service Catalog, golden paths, and Internal Developer Platform (Backstage-class) integration.
• Establish enterprise standards for IaC quality: pre‑commit, policy‑as‑code (Sentinel / OPA), security and compliance scanning, drift detection, and automated remediation.
• Act as the primary technical liaison between CCOE and Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, and Application Engineering.
• Drive engineering excellence across CCOE: code review standards, pairing culture, on‑call quality, post‑incident review discipline, and continuous improvement of the developer experience.
• Embed agentic AI capabilities into the team's engineering practice (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Bedrock, MCP servers, agentic IaC and review workflows) and into the platform's self‑service experience for internal customers.
• Drive the technical strategy for embedding agentic AI capabilities into the self‑service platform: agentic IaC generation, automated PR review, MCP‑backed agents for internal data, and conversational interfaces that let internal customers self‑serve common requests.
• Operate as a senior individual contributor with dotted‑line technical leadership to all five CCOE teams and the five Foundations pods — leading cloud strategy and technical architecture across the organization.
• Mentor and uplift senior engineers, AVPs, and VPs across CCOE through code review, design partnership, technical pairing, architecture guidance, and certification‑path technical advice per the CCOE certification matrix — acting as a force multiplier without direct reports.
• Personally participate in 24x7 on‑call rotations as senior incident commander and cross‑CCOE technical escalation point.

• 10+ years of progressive technical experience including 5+ years in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent work experience).
• 5+ years of hands‑on production AWS at scale in a multi‑account landing zone, with 4+ years of authoring production Terraform in a private module ecosystem delivered through Terraform Cloud and Git Hub Actions.
• 5+ years experience operating as a senior individual contributor (Principal Engineer or equivalent), influencing technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority — including hiring‑loop technical interviewing, architecture review participation, and technical mentorship of staff and senior engineers.
• Experience leading and personally participating in 24x7 production on‑call rotations in a fast‑paced, security‑conscious, regulated environment (financial services strongly preferred).

• cloud tooling
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Terraform
• AWS
• Git Hub Actions
• policy-as-code
• security scanning
• drift detection
• automated remediation
• agentic AI

• technical leadership
• mentorship
• collaboration
• influence without authority
• continuous improvement
• code review
• design partnership
• technical pairing
• incident management
• communication

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• CCOE certification matrix