[Hiring] Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer @Remitly

Role Description

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. Influence strategic cloud initiatives and build world-class cloud solutions that enable business agility and long-term innovation.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field required.
• 5 years of experience in job offered or related occupations required.
• 5 years of experience in:
• Designing and developing middleware services using Java frameworks including Spring Boot and Apache Camel.
• Implementing messaging systems including AWS SQS and EventBridge.
• Optimizing middleware services for high performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Developing low-code workflow applications using Appian.
• Creating user-friendly interfaces and workflows.
• Designing and implementing event-driven architecture using Salesforce’s Platform Events or Change Data Capture.
• Implementing APIs from middleware for Salesforce CPQ solutions.
• Managing AWS cloud infrastructure using services including CloudFormation.
• Developing serverless applications with AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
• Developing user-facing interfaces with modern JavaScript framework Angular.
• Managing release pipelines using CI/CD tools including Jenkins.
• Writing API test suites with tools such as Postman.

Requirements

• Employee reports to LexisNexis USA office in Raleigh, NC, but may telecommute from any location within the U.S.
• Experience can be concurrent.

Benefits

• Salary range: $157,248.00 to $177k/year + standard company benefits.
• National Base Pay Range: $115,400 - $192,300. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations.
• Country specific benefits available.

How to Apply

• Interested candidates should send email to [email protected] and reference job code: R107254.

Company Description

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