Principal AWS Cloud Engineer
Core
Design, build, and maintain secure, highly available AWS environments optimized for reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency while championing AI-assisted engineering practices.
Role type
Principal AWS Cloud Engineer (Platform/Infrastructure)
Builds
Reusable AWS infrastructure patterns, IaC modules, Kubernetes/container workloads, and internal enablement resources for AI-assisted engineering adoption.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineering / AI Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
AWS cloud engineering, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK), Python/Bash/Go scripting, Kubernetes/EKS, CI/CD/DevOps, AWS networking, cloud security, observability/SRE, mentoring
Preferred skills
AI-assisted engineering tools (Copilot/Claude/Cursor), platform engineering internal developer portals, AWS multi-account/governance patterns, serverless/event-driven architectures, FinOps, AWS AI/ML services (Bedrock/SageMaker)
Technologies
AWS Lambda, Azure, Bash, CI/CD, CloudWatch, Copilot, Cursor, Datadog, Docker, EC2, GitHub, GitOps, Helm, IAM, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Load Balancing, OpenTelemetry, Python, Splunk, Terraform
Responsibilities
Design and maintain secure, highly available AWS environments; develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code modules and pipelines; build and support Kubernetes and container-based workloads; champion AI-assisted engineering practices; partner with teams to modernize workloads; implement security controls and operational guardrails; improve cloud operations through monitoring and incident response; mentor engineers on best practices.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship