Principal Cloud Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$116.6K - $177.8K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Cloud Engineer
MESO SCALE DIAGNOSTICS, LLC.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams: set technical direction, establish engineering standards and runbooks, conduct performance management and career development conversations, and recruit and onboard new talent • Architect, build, and operate MSD’s AWS environment across multiple accounts using AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and a landing-zone reference architecture • Stay deeply hands-on: write and review production Terraform, author CI/CD pipelines, debug production incidents, optimize cluster and database performance, and contribute code that the team will live with years • Own and evolve MSD’s Infrastructure-as-Code standard (Terraform preferred; CloudFormation and CDK as needed) • Operate and extend MSD’s container and compute platforms (Amazon ECS, EKS/Kubernetes, EC2, Lambda, and serverless services) and the tooling around them • Design and operate MSD’s cloud networking foundation — VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, hybrid connectivity to on-prem and partner environments, Route 53, and edge services • Own the CI/CD platform and developer-platform tooling that accelerates delivery while enforcing required quality, security, and validation controls • Partner with Cybersecurity on cloud security engineering • Lead Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices • Partner on cloud-native solution design, application onboarding, and migration patterns • Support MSD’s regulated environment • Manage strategic vendor relationships and serve as the senior technical voice in vendor architecture and capacity discussions • Develop and own the cloud platform roadmap; partner with IS/IT leadership on planning, budgeting, and capability investment decisions
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline
- equivalent combination of education and experience considered
- Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles
- Minimum 7 years of hands-on AWS engineering experience across core services (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, VPC, IAM, KMS, CloudFront, API Gateway, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail)
- Minimum 3 years of demonstrated people-leadership experience: managing engineers (direct reports or formal tech leads), setting goals, conducting performance reviews, and developing team capability
- Strong, demonstrable Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation, and/or AWS CDK at scale
- Deep experience operating containerized workloads on Amazon ECS and/or Amazon EKS (Kubernetes)
- Experience operating in regulated environments (FDA 21 CFR Part 11, GxP, ISO 13485, ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, or comparable)
- Experience in life sciences, medical device, pharmaceutical, healthcare, or other regulated industries strongly preferred
- AWS certifications strongly preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional; Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) is a plus.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- prescription benefits
- 401(k) plan with company matching
- flexible spending accounts
- company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance
- group life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- paid vacation
- paid sick leave
- paid holidays
- paid parental leave
- employee assistance program
- fitness club membership contribution
- pet insurance
- identity theft protection
- home and auto insurance discounts
- optional supplemental life insurance
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