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Principal Cloud Platform Engineer
Location
Missouri
Posted
117 days ago
Salary
$121.5K - $224.9K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Cloud Platform Engineer
Centene Corporation
• Serves as the senior technical leader for AWS cloud platform strategy, driving transformational initiatives across the organization's multi-account AWS Landing Zone environment • Defines the technical vision and long-term roadmap for cloud platform services • Establishes enterprise-wide standards, architectural patterns, and best practices for AWS infrastructure automation using TypeScript, Terraform, and GitLab • Provides hands-on technical leadership on complex architecture challenges while influencing strategic decisions • Drive adoption of platform capabilities and infrastructure patterns across application development teams • Lead major cloud migration and modernization programs, defining migration strategies and transformation roadmaps
Job Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science)
- 6 – 8 years of related experience or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position
- Expert-level knowledge of AWS cloud services, architecture patterns, and platform design across all major service categories
- Extensive hands-on experience architecting and implementing large-scale AWS Landing Zone environments with Control Tower managing 100+ child accounts
- Advanced programming expertise in TypeScript for building sophisticated infrastructure automation and platform tooling
- Deep expertise in Terraform including advanced state management, module design, and enterprise-scale implementations
- Proven experience designing and implementing complex serverless architectures using Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, API Gateway, and related services
- Strong understanding of cloud security architecture, IAM, compliance frameworks, and governance at scale
Benefits
- competitive pay
- health insurance
- 401K and stock purchase plans
- tuition reimbursement
- paid time off plus holidays
- flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules
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