We have partnered with our client in their search for a Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer in Raleigh, NC.
Responsibilities:
As a Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer, you will help define best practices, establish cloud vision, mentor teams, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure our cloud infrastructure is robust, secure, scalable, resilient and cost-efficient. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence strategic cloud initiatives and build world-class cloud solutions that enable business agility and long-term innovation.
Cloud Strategy & Leadership
- Develop and implement a comprehensive AWS cloud strategy, ensuring alignment with business and technology goals.
- Provide technical leadership and advocacy, championing cloud-native best practices and innovation.
- Lead and drive architectural decisions, ensuring scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Cloud Architecture & Design
- Architect secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud environments.
- Develop and maintain enterprise-wide cloud blueprints, patterns, and frameworks to drive consistency.
- Research and integrate emerging cloud technologies to foster continuous innovation.
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
- Lead adoption and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Helm.
- Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines to streamline cloud deployments and operations.
- Implement self-healing and automated failover mechanisms to enhance resilience and reliability.
- Kubernetes & Cloud-Native Technologies
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS, Helm, IAM) for scalability and security.
- Define and enforce best practices for containerized applications and orchestration.
- Improve Kubernetes networking, ingress, and observability solutions to enhance performance.
Security & Compliance
- Establish and enforce security best practices for AWS environments, including IAM, WAF, Secret Manager, and encryption.
- Implement zero-trust security models and secure multi-account AWS environments.
- Conduct security audits, incident response, and ensure compliance with industry standards.
- Monitoring, Logging & Reliability Engineering
- Deploy and manage monitoring tools (DataDog, Splunk, CloudWatch, Coralogix) to ensure visibility and observability.
- Implement SRE principles to enhance system uptime, reliability, and efficiency.
- Conduct post-mortem analysis and drive continuous improvements in cloud performance.
Collaboration & Thought Leadership
- Work closely with software developers, system engineers, and security teams to design and implement cloud solutions.
- Provide mentorship, training, and technical leadership to engineering teams.
- Drive industry engagement by sharing expertise through public speaking, contributing to open-source projects, and participating in technical advisory boards.
Skills Required:
- Deep understanding of AWS services, including EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Transit Gateway, and CloudFormation.
- Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS, Helm, Daemon Sets, StatefulSets, Karpenter, external-dns, aws-cni).
- Strong experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, and automation scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell).
- Hands-on experience managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
- Proficiency in monitoring and logging tools (DataDog, Splunk, Coralogix, CloudWatch).
- Strong networking and security knowledge (DNS, VPC, NAT, Security Groups, IAM).
- Experience designing and developing scalable, production-grade software tools and automation scripts using Python.
Preferred Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (or equivalent).
- Additional certifications in Kubernetes (CKA), AWS Security, or DevOps are a plus.
Leadership & Soft Skills
- Proven experience leading cloud architecture and strategy initiatives.
- Ability to mentor and guide technical teams in a fast-paced, agile environment.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills in complex cloud environments.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for engineering, business, and executive stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to drive cultural change and advocate for cloud transformation.
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Education & Work Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in IT, with at least 5+ years in AWS cloud engineering and architecture.
- Bachelor’s degree in similar field
Title: Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer
Location: Raleigh, NC
Client Industry: Insurance
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