Principal Cloud Engineer

About the position

Provides both DevOps and Cloud automations to enable the seamless cloud adoption journey for applications that are onboarded to cloud through Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) framework. Develops micro and pluggable modules with governance embedders in them for the Infrastructure as code as part of the Continuous Delivery Framework. Designs and develops the Digital Factory setup that will enable cloud onboarding for applications, including both platform, infrastructure, and application setup.

Responsibilities

• Creates and provisions cloud platforms to application teams.
• Offers access, security, and networking capabilities on cloud for application teams.
• Manages the governance and compliance of cloud platforms.
• Provides consulting and support for onboarding applications to the cloud and participates in architecture design and review.
• Drives the FinOps Cloud Cost Optimization for multiple applications across the business unit.
• Develops pipeline and infrastructure as a code capability for application teams to enable seamless cloud adoption.
• Implements security hardening in cloud platforms to ensure that applications are secured though they are hosted in public cloud platform.
• Enables logging and telemetry capabilities to allow auto discovery and auto healing of applications on cloud.
• Advises senior management on technical strategy.
• Mentors junior team members.
• Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting several divisional initiatives.
• Develops original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Cloud Engineer or closely related occupation.
• Or, alternatively, Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Cloud Engineer or closely related occupation.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and developing continuous delivery automation framework for deploying Cloud-based secure solutions using Amazon Cloud Computing Services.
• Expertise in designing and developing efficient and scalable managed Cloud Ops platform for corporate technology, data architecture, Enterprise Cyber Security and data governance applications running on AWS platform.
• Experience collaborating with architecture teams and stakeholders on application migration and onboarding strategies to AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes.
• Experience designing and developing reusable Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline templates.