Senior Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer
LexisNexis5 months ago
Base Salary
$118k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable, secure, cost-effective, and high-performance AWS environments.
- Define enterprise-wide AWS architecture patterns, frameworks, governance, and best practices, including multi-account strategy with AWS Control Tower, Organizations, and IAM.
- Architect hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud solutions integrating on-premises and SaaS platforms with AWS.
- Design and optimize Kubernetes-based microservices architectures, networking, ingress, service mesh, and secure workloads.
- Lead Infrastructure as Code and automation using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
- Implement automated provisioning, configuration management, scaling, failover, self-healing, and multi-region high-availability strategies.
- Establish zero-trust security, encryption, least-privilege IAM, security automation, and compliance practices for SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR.
- Optimize serverless, event-driven, storage, database, and real-time application architectures using AWS services.
- Establish enterprise cloud monitoring, logging, event correlation, incident response, automated remediation, predictive analytics, and anomaly detection practices.
- Mentor Principal and Senior Cloud Engineers, lead technical reviews and AWS Well-Architected Framework assessments, and contribute to industry events, open-source projects, and technical blogging.
Requirements
- 12+ years of IT experience, including at least 7+ years focused on AWS cloud engineering, architecture, and automation.
- Deep AWS expertise with EC2, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, VPC, CloudFormation, IAM, Transit Gateway, and Route 53.
- Expertise in Kubernetes architecture, including EKS, Helm, DaemonSets, StatefulSets, Karpenter, external-dns, and aws-cni.
- Advanced Infrastructure as Code expertise with Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation.
- Proficiency with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Azure DevOps.
- Mastery of AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, and Route 53 latency-based routing.
- Deep expertise in security and compliance frameworks and tools including IAM, AWS KMS, AWS Secrets Manager, WAF, and AWS Shield.
- Experience designing high-scale, production-grade automation solutions using Python, Bash, or Go.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional is highly preferred; AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, and AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional are relevant certifications, with the latter listed as a plus.
- Ability to architect and optimize large-scale AWS environments, mentor engineers, communicate with executive stakeholders, work independently, collaborate across engineering, security, and operations, and stay current with cloud innovation.
Benefits
- Preferred location is Raleigh, NC, with remote work available within the United States on a U.S. Eastern Time Zone schedule.
- Flexible working hours and work/life balance initiatives.
- Shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits through a multi-carrier program.
- 401(k) with match and an 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.
- Up to two days of paid leave each for Employee Resource Group participation and volunteering.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAmazon RedshiftAWSBashDatadogGitHub ActionsGoHelmIstioJenkinsKubernetesPythonSplunkTerraform
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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.