Principal Engineer - Cloud Platform

Principal Engineer - Cloud Platform
Location: Remote, Jacksonville FL Preferred
Job Type: 6 Month Contract
Work Arrangement: Remote
About The Role: Design and build the landing zone: Organizations structure, OU model, account vending, guardrails. Build and maintain the Terraform module library and platform CI/CD pipelines. Lead the platform engineering team: set technical direction, assign and review work, mentor engineers, develop skills. Define reference architectures and enable application teams to self-serve. Review designs, author ADRs, and represent the platform in governance forums. Set up centralized logging and configuration monitoring using CloudTrail, Config, and CloudWatch. Detect and remediate configuration drift across accounts. Build automated account vending using Control Tower and Account Factory for Terraform. Build and maintain the Terraform module library that other teams consume, including versioning and testing. Working knowledge of cloud identity management, federation, and short-lived credential patterns. Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals and encryption services.
Responsibilities
Design and build the landing zone
Organizations structure
OU model
Account vending
Guardrails
Build and maintain the Terraform module library and platform CI/CD pipelines
Lead the platform engineering team
Set technical direction
Assign and review work
Mentor engineers
Develop skills
Define reference architectures and enable application teams to self-serve
Review designs, author ADRs, and represent the platform in governance forums
Set up centralized logging and configuration monitoring using CloudTrail, Config, and CloudWatch
Detect and remediate configuration drift across accounts
Build automated account vending using Control Tower and Account Factory for Terraform
Build and maintain the Terraform module library that other teams consume, including versioning and testing
Apply working knowledge of cloud identity management, federation, and short-lived credential patterns
Apply strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals and encryption services
Qualifications
Required Work Experience
8+ years related work experience building and operating a cloud infrastructure/platform engineering team in an AWS or Azure multi-account environment including hands-on experience with landing zone design
Hands-on Terraform skills, including reusable modules, state management, and pipeline-driven deployment
1+ year leadership experience, training, mentoring when needed
Related Bachelor's degree required
Required Skills
Hands-on Terraform skills, including reusable modules, state management, and pipeline-driven deployment
Working knowledge of cloud identity management, federation, and short-lived credential patterns
Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals and encryption services
Experience building and operating a cloud infrastructure/platform engineering team in an AWS or Azure multi-account environment
Hands-on experience with landing zone design
Leadership experience, including training and mentoring
Preferred Skills
Preferred Experience/Certifications
AWS Cloud Certifications
Azure Cloud Certifications
VMware exit or large data center migration experience
AWS GovCloud, including partition boundaries, service parity gaps, and separate account structures
Kubernetes, OpenShift, or EKS experience
FedRAMP Moderate or High environments
Policy as code using Open Policy Agent, Sentinel, or equivalent
Healthcare, financial services, or other regulated industry experience

Work arrangement
Yes