Principal Cloud Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 4, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 4, 2026. Fidelity Investments scores A on the Alion truth index.
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Job Description:
Position Description:
Designs and develops software applications with programming languages and deploys Application Program Interfaces (APIs) in the cloud through automation with integrated security and testing. Coordinates and operates Open Telemetry platform to provide reliable and secure access to logs, metrics, and traces across the hybrid cloud environment (Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Rancher). Instruments, generates, collects, and exports telemetry data to analyze software performance and behavior. Develops applications on Cloud with Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capability. Deploys dashboards and monitors on Datadog.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Participates in architecture design teams.
- Defines and implements application-level architecture.
- Develops applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems.
- Recommends development testing tools and methodologies and reviews and validates test plans.
- Responsible for QA readiness of software deliverables.
- Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems.
- Establishes full project life cycle plans for complex projects across multiple platforms.
- Responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget.
- Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects.
- Plans and coordinates project schedules and assignments for multiple projects.
- Acts as a primary liaison for business units to resolve project/technology issues.
- Provides technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives.
- Advises senior management on technical strategy.
- Mentors junior team members.
- Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects.
- Develops original and creative technical solutions to ongoing development efforts.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Cloud Engineer (or closely related occupation) implementing continuous automation for AWS cloud workloads using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) orchestration tools, EKS, Vault, Artifactory and GitHub.
Or, alternatively, a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Cloud Engineer (or closely related occupation) implementing continuous automation for AWS cloud workloads using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) orchestration tools, EKS, Vault, Artifactory and GitHub.
Skills and Knowledge:
Candidate must also possess:
- Demonstrated Expertise collaborating with architecture teams and stakeholders on application migration and onboarding strategies to AWS and Kubernetes; and reviewing operational readiness assessments and coordinating standardized production best practices and processes using GitHub, CloudBees Jenkins, Artifactory, Hashi Corp Vault, and Open Tofu within regulated enterprise contexts.
- Demonstrated Expertise building applications in Python, Go, and automating build and release processes for applications using sonar (static analysis) and Artifactory; automating deployment and configuration tasks using Shell scripting and IaC (Terraform or OpenTofu); and enabling observability using Datadog and Splunk within multi account AWS environments.
- Demonstrated Expertise designing and developing cloud native services and deploying to AWS (EKS, Lambda, EC2, and API Gateway) and Kubernetes within containerized production environments; and building dashboards containing metrics and logs of application deployed in AWS.
- Demonstrated Expertise building and integrating applications using Amazon DynamoDB (DynamoDB) and using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for object storage; working with networking components including Application Load Balancer (ALB), Network Load Balancer (NLB), and AWS Private Link (Private Link); and participating in disaster recovery (DR) activities for applications.
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