[Hiring] Principal AWS Cloud Engineer-2 @Reed Technology

Role Description

As a Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer, you will design, build, and guide secure, scalable AWS cloud platforms and cloud-native solutions. You will partner with engineering, security, architecture, and product teams to implement infrastructure automation, Kubernetes and serverless patterns, observability, and resilient operating practices. This role combines hands-on cloud engineering with technical leadership, mentoring, and practical architectural guidance that supports business agility, reliability, and cost-effective innovation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering or IT experience, with 5+ years focused on AWS cloud engineering, automation, platform engineering, or cloud architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with core AWS services, including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, EKS, CloudWatch, and Route 53.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor) in day-to-day development, code review, and platform work.
• Experience designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or similar tooling.
• Strong scripting or programming skills using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages to automate cloud operations and integration workflows.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, and GitOps practices using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Azure DevOps, or comparable platforms.
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes-based deployment patterns, including Docker, EKS, Helm, service networking, and autoscaling concepts.
• Solid understanding of AWS networking concepts, including VPC design, subnets, routing, security groups, load balancing, DNS, and hybrid connectivity patterns.
• Knowledge of cloud security and compliance practices, including IAM least privilege, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and policy guardrails.
• Experience with observability and SRE practices, including monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, runbooks, and operational readiness reviews.
• Experience supporting cloud data services and storage patterns such as RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, caching, backup, and lifecycle management.
• Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and mentoring skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.
• Experience with platform engineering Internal Developer Portal (IDE) or self-service cloud development environments.

Requirements

• Design, build, and maintain secure, highly available AWS environments optimized for reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Implement reusable AWS infrastructure patterns across compute, networking, storage, identity, containers, serverless, and database services.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code modules, templates, and pipelines that support consistent provisioning and deployment practices.
• Develop and maintain internal enablement resources — playbooks, templates, workshops that accelerate team adoption of AI-assisted engineering.
• Build and support Kubernetes and container-based workloads on AWS, including EKS deployment patterns, Helm-based releases, ingress, autoscaling, and observability integrations.
• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across the team, identifying high-value use cases, curating tooling, and building enablement resources.
• Partner with application, security, architecture, and operations teams to modernize workloads and improve cloud-native delivery practices.
• Implement security controls and operational guardrails, including least-privilege IAM, encryption, secrets management, network segmentation, and compliance-aligned practices.
• Improve cloud operations through monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, runbooks, automated remediation, and continuous reliability improvements.
• Review cloud designs and changes against AWS Well-Architected principles, internal standards, and production readiness expectations.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud, platform, networking, deployment, and performance issues across AWS environments.
• Mentor engineers on AWS, Kubernetes, automation, security, and platform engineering best practices while promoting continuous learning.
• Communicate technical recommendations clearly to engineering partners, product stakeholders, security teams, and leadership.

Benefits

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits.
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan.
• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs.
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity.
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts.
• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice.