Principal Cloud Engineer

**Description**:
**About the role**:
**What you’ll do here**:

- Identify and analyze technical requirements (AWS cloud-based technologies required) from various teams for existing and new systems that will be migrated or deployed to the cloud.
- Ensure systems design is highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed on AWS cloud.
- Provide recommendations on which of the available cloud-based technologies meet a given technical requirement.
- Obtain business-owner sign off on well documented test procedures, quality standards, implementation plan, disaster recovery plan, and go-live schedule.
- Provide guidance on best practices to all stakeholders regarding AWS deployment and management services.
- Create and manage end-to-end security of data flowing to and from AWS estimating AWS usage costs and identify operational cost control mechanisms.
- Continuously ensure all audit controls are implemented and maintained.
- Deliver container-based solutions utilizing the Kubernetes as part of our cloud migration, app modernization and cloud-native development services on AWS.
- Provide support to end users on utilizing AWS services, security model, and tools as they relate to their day-to-day work.
- Work with business stakeholders and/or QA staff as necessary to troubleshoot problems and/or define requirements.
- Provide recommendations on which of the available cloud-based technologies meet a given technical requirement.
- Install, configure, and maintain Linux operating systems (primarily Amazon Linux 2) across virtual environments.
- Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement solutions to optimize system performance and reliability.
- Perform regular system updates, patches, and security upgrades to ensure the integrity and security of the Linux systems.
- Completing code and script updates, as well as resolving product implementation errors.
- Documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.
- Design and support container image lifecycle management systems.

**About you**:

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
- Team lead experience preferred
- Experience with PCI and/or SOC audits and requirements
- Adept at evaluating problems accurately and displaying sound judgment
- Familiarity with a broad portfolio of AWS infrastructure tools (EBS, S3, EC2, Elastic IP, Route 53, VPC, RDS) and experience with cloud infrastructure management and automation technologies (Chef, Puppet, CloudFormation)
- Experience with Kubernetes and GitOps
- Scripting (shell, python, ruby, powershell) skills for monitoring and automation
- Continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Concourse, CircleCI, etc.
- Experience maintaining an infrastructure and ensuring stability while adding new features
- Ability to clearly articulate design and implementation choices
- Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
- Possess a strong grasp of automation tools
- Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
- U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident status required
- Visa Sponsorship not available

**Bonus point if you**:

- Experience with Elixir, Erlang, PHP, or.NET

The US base salary for this full-time position is $112,100 - $160,000 + bonus + benefits. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.