Principle AWS Cloud Engineer
LexisNexis3 months ago
Base Salary
$115k - $192k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain secure, highly available AWS environments optimized for reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Develop reusable AWS infrastructure patterns, Infrastructure as Code modules, templates, and deployment pipelines.
- Build and support Kubernetes and container workloads on AWS, including EKS deployments, Helm releases, ingress, autoscaling, and observability integrations.
- Implement security controls and operational guardrails covering IAM, encryption, secrets management, network segmentation, and compliance practices.
- Improve cloud operations through monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, runbooks, automated remediation, and reliability improvements.
- Review cloud designs against AWS Well-Architected principles, internal standards, and production readiness expectations.
- Troubleshoot complex cloud, platform, networking, deployment, and performance issues across AWS environments.
- Create playbooks, templates, workshops, and other enablement resources for AI-assisted engineering adoption.
- Mentor engineers and communicate technical recommendations to engineering, product, security, operations, and leadership stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering or IT experience, including 5+ years focused on AWS cloud engineering, automation, platform engineering, or cloud architecture.
- Strong hands-on experience with EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, EKS, CloudWatch, and Route 53.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or Cursor, including enabling other engineers to adopt them.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or similar tools.
- Strong scripting or programming skills with Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
- Experience with cloud delivery and infrastructure practices using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, or Azure DevOps.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, Helm, service networking, and autoscaling.
- Knowledge of AWS networking, cloud security, compliance, observability, SRE practices, data services, storage, backup, and lifecycle management.
- Experience with internal developer portals or self-service cloud development environments.
- Preferred AWS Associate or Professional certification, Certified Kubernetes Administrator certification, or comparable certification.
- Preferred experience with reusable Infrastructure as Code modules, golden paths, self-service provisioning, AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM Identity Center, or related governance capabilities.
- Preferred experience with Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or Splunk.
- Familiarity with cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, tagging strategies, FinOps, and infrastructure supporting data, analytics, AI, or machine learning workloads.
- Experience with AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, or related managed AI services is a plus.
Benefits
- Preferred location is Raleigh, NC, with a remote option within the United States and a U.S. Eastern Time Zone schedule.
- Flexible working hours and work/life balance initiatives.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k) with match and Employee Share Purchase Plan.
- Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace subscription, Employee Assistance, and time-off programs.
- Short- and long-term disability, life and accidental death insurance, critical illness, and hospital indemnity coverage.
- Family benefits including bonding and family care leave, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care, and Commuter Spending Accounts.
- Paid leave for employee resource group participation and volunteering.
- Shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals.
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About LexisNexis
LexisNexis is a leading innovator of private, secure, and authoritative Legal AI solutions that help legal and business professionals draft full documents with ease, make informed decisions faster, and deliver outstanding work and improved outcomes, all powered by trusted content. LexisNexis Legal & Professional serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, and is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.