Principal Engineer - Cloud Platform

Principal Engineer - Cloud Platform

Location: Remote, Jacksonville FL Preferred

Job Type: 6 Month Contract

Work Arrangement: Remote

About The Role: Design and build the landing zone: Organizations structure, OU model, account vending, guardrails. Build and maintain the Terraform module library and platform CI/CD pipelines. Lead the platform engineering team: set technical direction, assign and review work, mentor engineers, develop skills. Define reference architectures and enable application teams to self-serve. Review designs, author ADRs, and represent the platform in governance forums. Set up centralized logging and configuration monitoring using CloudTrail, Config, and CloudWatch. Detect and remediate configuration drift across accounts. Build automated account vending using Control Tower and Account Factory for Terraform. Build and maintain the Terraform module library that other teams consume, including versioning and testing. Working knowledge of cloud identity management, federation, and short-lived credential patterns. Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals and encryption services.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the landing zone
• Organizations structure
• OU model
• Account vending
• Guardrails
• Build and maintain the Terraform module library and platform CI/CD pipelines
• Lead the platform engineering team
• Set technical direction
• Assign and review work
• Mentor engineers
• Develop skills
• Define reference architectures and enable application teams to self-serve
• Review designs, author ADRs, and represent the platform in governance forums
• Set up centralized logging and configuration monitoring using CloudTrail, Config, and CloudWatch
• Detect and remediate configuration drift across accounts
• Build automated account vending using Control Tower and Account Factory for Terraform
• Build and maintain the Terraform module library that other teams consume, including versioning and testing
• Apply working knowledge of cloud identity management, federation, and short-lived credential patterns
• Apply strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals and encryption services

Qualifications

• Required Work Experience
• 8+ years related work experience building and operating a cloud infrastructure/platform engineering team in an AWS or Azure multi-account environment including hands-on experience with landing zone design
• Hands-on Terraform skills, including reusable modules, state management, and pipeline-driven deployment
• 1+ year leadership experience, training, mentoring when needed
• Related Bachelor's degree required

Required Skills

• Hands-on Terraform skills, including reusable modules, state management, and pipeline-driven deployment
• Working knowledge of cloud identity management, federation, and short-lived credential patterns
• Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals and encryption services
• Experience building and operating a cloud infrastructure/platform engineering team in an AWS or Azure multi-account environment
• Hands-on experience with landing zone design
• Leadership experience, including training and mentoring

Preferred Skills

• Preferred Experience/Certifications
• AWS Cloud Certifications
• Azure Cloud Certifications
• VMware exit or large data center migration experience
• AWS GovCloud, including partition boundaries, service parity gaps, and separate account structures
• Kubernetes, OpenShift, or EKS experience
• FedRAMP Moderate or High environments
• Policy as code using Open Policy Agent, Sentinel, or equivalent
• Healthcare, financial services, or other regulated industry experience