Principal AWS Cloud Kubernetes Engineer

Prestigious Financial Institution is currently seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer with strong AWS and Kubernetes experience. The role is a permanent full-time position, not eligible for sponsorship, and is bonus eligible.

• Report to the Executive Director of Platform Automation and Cloud Engineering.
• Design, configure, implement, and manage a fully automated workflow for provisioning and maintaining a complex, highly available cloud environment using infrastructure as code.
• Develop and maintain a library of deployable, tested, and documented automation design scripts, processes, and procedures for deploying services to the cloud.
• Manage Dev Ops development activities and complex development tasks that involve tools such as Docker, Kafka, and container management systems.
• Lead and participate in cloud computing environment build‑outs, software installation, maintenance, and support, including patches, fixes, end‑of‑life preparation, and upgrades.
• Ensure reliability of services, manage SLAs, and help the organization achieve internal and external quality standards for the cloud platform.
• Assess and plan capacity needs within the cloud platform and forecast accordingly.
• Implement and manage initiatives with accountability for results and compliance with all controls and security requirements.
• Lead in the development of technology roadmaps and end‑of‑life technology plans.
• Effectively communicate project and operational service issues to senior management promptly with observations, decisions, and recommendations for corrective measures.
• Manage and participate in the implementation of production changes during defined maintenance windows and on‑call rotation.
• Maintain appropriate work/personal balance within your team.
• Serve as a point of escalation for support issues.
• Implement and manage rotational support schedules for after‑hours and weekend work within your area of responsibility.
• Foster an atmosphere of trust, respect, and high performance while displaying strong ethics and integrity.
• Manage project and daily work task planning and prioritization and meet project deadlines while maintaining a high quality of work.
• Institute corrective actions to address audit and other regulatory or compliance findings.
• Operate within budget; establish and assure adherence to schedules, work plans, and performance requirements.
• Write and maintain documentation of relevant systems, procedures, and processes.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Good consultative, communication, team‑player, and analytical skills are a must, as you will regularly interact between various teams distributed across the US.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure design and components such as servers, operating systems, networks, and storage.
• Experience with architecting, implementing, and maintaining highly available mission‑critical environments for 24/7 availability.
• Experience working in an environment with a defined production change control process.
• Demonstrates history of working within deadlines and ability to work well under pressure.
• Hands‑on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Kafka, Git Hub, Open Shift, and configuration‑management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
• Relevant experience with configuration and implementation of IaaS, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, Azure, etc.
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Mathematics, etc.), or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of experience in IT systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance of cloud systems / virtualized servers.
• Preferred:
  Experience working in a financial services or highly regulated environment.

• Required:
  
  AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification or higher strongly desired.
• Preferred:
  Relevant industry certifications such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

• Mid‑Senior level

• Full‑time

• Information Technology