[Hiring] Principal Cloud Engineer @Enlyte

Role Description

This is a full-time remote position that can be located anywhere in the U.S.

The Principal Cloud Engineer (AWS) is an experienced technical leader responsible for the design, implementation, and evolution of the company's AWS cloud platform. This role serves as a subject matter expert in AWS infrastructure, security, networking, automation, and reliability, and contributes to defining cloud engineering standards and best practices.

At the Senior level, this role leads significant cloud initiatives, influences architecture decisions within their domain, mentors engineers, and partners closely with application, security, and platform teams to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions that support enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and evolve AWS cloud architectures supporting enterprise and mission-critical workloads.
• Contribute to AWS reference architectures, design patterns, and engineering standards.
• Lead architectural design for complex cloud initiatives and platform improvements.
• Evaluate and recommend AWS services and capabilities aligned to business and technical requirements.
• Architect and implement highly available, scalable, and secure AWS infrastructure.
• Lead cloud migrations, modernization efforts, and cloud-native solution design.
• Provide technical expertise on complex engineering problems requiring advanced judgment.
• Review designs and implementations to ensure architectural consistency and quality.
• Design AWS environments that meet security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Security and Risk teams to implement strong identity, access, encryption, and network controls.
• Establish and maintain standards for monitoring, logging, incident response, and cost optimization.
• Drive operational excellence across AWS platforms.
• Act as a technical expert and trusted advisor to engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to raising the technical bar.
• Influence cloud engineering practices through hands-on leadership and collaboration.
• Collaborate across teams to align cloud solutions with business objectives.

Job Complexity & Scope

• Works on complex issues where analysis requires evaluation of multiple technical and business factors.
• Exercises sound judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and architectural approaches.
• Contributions have significant impact across systems, platforms, and teams.
• Builds strong working relationships and technical influence within their domain.

Supervision & Autonomy

• Operates with minimal supervision.
• Determines methods and procedures for complex assignments.
• May lead technical workstreams but is not a formal people manager.

Qualifications

• Typically requires 8+ years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or equivalent professional experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing, building, and operating AWS environments at scale.
• Demonstrated success leading complex cloud engineering initiatives.
• AWS Professional or Specialty certifications preferred.
• Extensive knowledge of Terraform, knowledge of Ansible a plus.
• Strong expertise in AWS cloud engineering and distributed systems.
• Comprehensive knowledge of AWS services across compute, storage, networking, security, and platform services.
• Advanced understanding of cloud networking, identity and access management, and security best practices.
• Solid grasp of enterprise architecture concepts and system integration.
• Ability to translate complex business needs into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Accounts / Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Life and AD&D Insurance.
• 401(k).
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• An array of resources that encourage a lifetime of healthier living.
• Compensation ranges from $118,500 - $170,000 annually, based on skills, experience, and education.