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Principal Cloud Engineer
Mes*** · Rockville, MD, United States
Rockville, MD, United StatesExp: 10+ yrs131,600-205,625 USD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
Annual base salary of $131,600–$205,625, with potential bonus and benefits.
Location
Rockville, MD, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
The Principal Cloud Engineer leads the design, operation, and continuous improvement of an AWS platform serving manufacturing, commercial, CRO, and SaaS environments, while providing technical direction and developing Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams. The role remains hands-on with AWS architecture, Terraform-based infrastructure automation, CI/CD, container platforms, cloud networking and security, and SRE practices. It also ensures platform and deployment processes support regulated requirements, including GxP, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, ISO 27001, and SOC 2.
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision coveragePrescription benefits401(k) plan with company matchingFlexible spending accountsCompany-paid short- and long-term disability insuranceGroup life and accidental death and dismemberment insurancePaid vacation, sick leave, holidays, and parental leaveEmployee assistance programFitness club membership contributionPet insuranceIdentity theft protectionHome and auto insurance discountsOptional supplemental life insurance
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent education and experience.
- At least 10 years of progressive experience in cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps.
- At least 7 years of hands-on AWS engineering experience across core services.
- At least 3 years of people-leadership experience, including goal setting, performance reviews, and team development.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK at scale.
- Deep experience operating containerized workloads on Amazon ECS and/or EKS.
- Experience in regulated environments and supporting validation, audit, or assessment activities.
- Strong AWS networking and cloud security engineering knowledge.
- Proficiency in Python and Bash, and working proficiency in a general-purpose language such as Go, Java, or TypeScript.
- Working knowledge of observability, SRE, FinOps, and hybrid-cloud integration practices.
- Strong communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and technical judgment.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams.
- Set technical direction, engineering standards, runbooks, and team development practices.
- Architect, build, and operate a secure, scalable, highly available AWS environment across multiple accounts.
- Write and review production infrastructure code, build CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot incidents, and optimize cluster and database performance.
- Own infrastructure-as-code standards, reusable modules, state management, and CI/CD integration.
- Operate container and compute platforms, including ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, EC2, and Lambda.
- Design and operate cloud networking and hybrid connectivity.
- Own CI/CD and developer-platform tooling with quality, security, and validation controls.
- Partner with Cybersecurity on cloud security engineering and remediation.
- Lead SRE practices, including SLOs, on-call, incident response, observability, capacity planning, and disaster-recovery testing.
- Guide application onboarding, cloud-native solution design, and migration patterns.
- Support compliance, validation, audits, and assessments for regulated environments.
- Manage strategic vendor relationships and develop the cloud platform roadmap.
Skills
Argo CDAWSAWS KMSBashAWS CDKCloudFormationCloudFrontCloudWatchDynamoDBECSEKSGitHubGitHub ActionsGitLabGitLab CIGoGrafanaHelmIAMJavaJenkinsKubernetesAWS LambdaNutanixOpenSearchPrometheusPythonRoute 53S3SplunkTerraformTypeScriptVMwareAzureDockerGCPSNSSQS
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – ProfessionalAWS Certified DevOps Engineer – ProfessionalCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Degrees
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information SystemsMaster’s degree preferred
Industry
Life sciencesMedical devicePharmaceuticalHealthcareContract research organization (CRO)
Relocation
No