Principal Cloud Engineer (Network/Security)

Role Summary

Responsibilities

• The Principal Cloud Engineer (Network/Security) owns the architecture, implementation, and reliability outcomes of enterprise cloud platforms. The role balances strategic leadership with direct contribution, driving reliability standards while remaining hands-on in critical areas of platform engineering, automation, observability, and incident response.
• Lead the design, architecture, and evolution of enterprise cloud platforms, including AWS Landing Zone.
• Ensure cloud foundations are designed for high availability, fault tolerance, recoverability, security, and operational resilience.
• Design and implement cloud solutions using AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon RDS, Route 53, AWS Lambda, and Amazon API Gateway.
• Design and automate advanced AWS networking solutions, including virtual private clouds, Transit Gateway, VPC peering, AWS PrivateLink, and AWS Direct Connect.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and Git-based workflows.
• Own site reliability engineering outcomes across cloud platforms and drive adoption of reliability engineering practices.
• Standardize reusable modules, reference architectures, and platform patterns that promote consistent and reliable deployments at scale.
• Define and enforce reliability standards, including availability targets, recovery expectations, resilience patterns, and operational readiness criteria.
• Ensure instrumentation, monitoring, logging, alerting, and service health measures are embedded into platforms and services.
• Act as the escalation point for complex incidents, leading root-cause analysis and long-term remediation.
• Design and implement guardrails that enable secure, reliable, and self-service cloud adoption.
• Enable application teams to own end-to-end services while meeting platform reliability and operational standards.
• Participate in an Agile delivery model, contributing to stories and epics, tracking work, and supporting sprint releases.
• Partner closely with Application Development, Development Services, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Security, and infrastructure teams.
• Mentor engineers and promote a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and technology modernization.

Business Knowledge

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience AND 10+ years of experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure with senior-level impact.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS, with working knowledge of Microsoft Azure.
• Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure, container platforms, serverless deployments, operating systems, networking, and identity and access management.
• Expert knowledge of reliability engineering concepts, including availability, resilience, observability, recovery, incident response, and operational readiness.
• Strong experience with AWS Landing Zone or comparable enterprise cloud foundation capabilities.
• Advanced infrastructure automation experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, scripting, APIs, continuous integration and delivery pipelines, and secure development and operations practices.
• Proven ability to design, build, and operate enterprise-scale, highly reliable cloud platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, networking, platform services, automation, and reliability layers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to serve as a design authority and influence teams without formal line management.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical decisions across organizational boundaries.

Preferred:

FINRA Requirements

• FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.

Work Flexibility

Base Salary Ranges

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• Placement within the range provided above is based on the individual’s relevant experience and skills for the role . Base salary is only one component of our total compensation package . Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, which is determined upon company and individual performance.
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Benefits

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• Owings Mills, Maryland US
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