ETS Senior Principal Engineer - Cloud Engineering

Navy Federal Credit Union - Winchester, VA

Full-time - Senior

Winchester, VA

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The Senior Principal Engineer for Cloud Engineering at Navy Federal Credit Union will serve as the senior technical leader for managed VPC workloads within the Cloud Native Engineering organization. This role involves providing technical leadership and direction for a team focused on cloud-native product engineering, encompassing areas such as security, software-defined networking, Infrastructure as Code, data automation, and site reliability engineering. The engineer will collaborate with product owners and executive leaders to enhance secure, high-performing products while leveraging Azure technologies.

Responsibilities

• Set high-level technical direction for the team in partnership with executive leadership.
• Collaborate and build relationships with executive leadership, product owners, and organizational partners for team and business success.
• Develop roadmaps for cloud-native product enhancements.
• Proactively identify opportunities for evolving cloud services across the Azure tenant.
• Influence and advocate for leadership's collective vision.

Requirements

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Product Engineering expertise.
• Broad and deep Cloud engineering expertise.
• Strong technical leadership skills with a successful track record of cloud delivery.
• Advanced expertise in Infrastructure as Code principles and engineering IaC deployments via Azure DevOps.
• Advanced experience in scripting with Windows PowerShell.
• Advanced expertise in engineering Azure security platforms.
• Advanced expertise in engineering Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS).
• Advanced expertise in engineering Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Intermediate expertise in engineering Azure Automation.
• Working knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policy, LDAP, Kerberos, DNS, TCP/IP, WMI, SNMP.
• Working knowledge of MS SQL Server usage and administration.
• Minimum of 15-20 years of experience in IT with an emphasis on Cloud native solutions.
• Minimum of 7-10 years in Azure Software Defined Networking, Azure Data & Storage, Azure Compute, Azure containerized platforms, and SRE.

Nice-to-haves

• Expertise in general networking including firewalls, routers, proxies, DNS, DHCP.
• Strong familiarity with Azure AI services.
• Intermediate experience with Azure Software as a Service solutions integrations.
• Strong familiarity with Azure Dev Centers and Azure DevTest Labs.
• Working knowledge of ServiceNow.

Benefits

• Eligible for the TalentQuest employee referral program.