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Senior Principal Cloud Engineer

washington, dc • Posted 5 days ago
Onsite Full Time IT & Technology

  • Lead the hands-on design, build, and delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions across AWS and related cloud-native platforms.
  • Develop production-ready reference architectures, infrastructure-as-code modules, automation patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and reusable engineering assets that accelerate delivery and improve quality.
  • Translate customer mission needs, technical requirements, and operational constraints into working cloud architectures and implementable engineering plans.
  • Serve as the senior technical owner for complex cloud migration, modernization, and optimization initiatives, actively contributing to architecture, implementation, troubleshooting, and release readiness.
  • Guide engineering teams through the development of cloud-native applications, containerized workloads, serverless solutions, platform services, and DevSecOps practices.
  • Design and implement automation for provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, security controls, and operational recovery.
  • Evaluate and make architectural decisions on cloud services, application patterns, data flows, integration approaches, security models, and operational tradeoffs.
  • Partner directly with developers, architects, security engineers, program leaders, and customer stakeholders to resolve technical blockers and keep delivery moving.
  • Perform hands‑on technical reviews of designs, code, pipelines, infrastructure definitions, deployment patterns, and operational runbooks to ensure engineering excellence.
  • Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, performance, cost optimization, observability, and security posture across cloud environments.
  • Mentor senior engineers and technical leads through complex design and implementation challenges while raising the organization’s cloud engineering standards.
  • Support solution shaping, technical capture, and growth activities by contributing practical architecture, implementation strategies, estimates, and delivery approaches.

Requirements

  • Active Top-Secret Security Clearance with SCI eligibility
  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience managing complex technical projects, programs, or enterprise technology initiatives.
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience leading AWS cloud migration and optimization efforts.
  • Active AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification, or ability to obtain within 6 months of hire.
  • Demonstrated experience leading multiple simultaneous software development programs, technology modernization efforts, or enterprise initiatives.
  • Preferred experience with developing solutions using Python or similar programming languages
  • Experience deploying and managing container-based applications using Kubernetes and serverless technologies
  • Experience with software development tools, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and CI/CD processes and pipelines
  • Proven ability to balance technical leadership with sound business judgment to drive customer-focused decisions.
  • Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience engaging with senior executives, customer leadership, and technical teams.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud solutions on AWS, with a strong focus on automation, CI/CD processes, and cloud-native application development. Proven ability to lead complex technical projects and mentor engineering teams while ensuring high standards of quality and security.

Highest-signal resume keywords

  • AWS Cloud Migration
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
  • Container-Based Application Deployment
  • Technical Project Management

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

  • Cloud Architecture
  • Automation Patterns
  • CI/CD Pipelines
  • Python Programming
  • Kubernetes
  • Serverless Technologies
  • Technical Reviews
  • Security Controls
  • Operational Recovery
  • Data Flows

Soft Skills

  • Exceptional Communication
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Analytical Problem-Solving
  • Decision-Making
  • Mentoring

Certifications & Qualifications

  • Top-Secret Security Clearance
  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Industry Keywords

  • Cloud Solutions
  • Technical Leadership
  • Enterprise Technology Initiatives
  • Software Development Programs
  • Technology Modernization

Tools & Technologies

  • AWS
  • Cloud-Native Platforms
  • DevSecOps Practices
  • Monitoring Tools
  • Deployment Patterns

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