Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (AWS)
Job Title: Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (AWS)
Job Location: Work at Home, Rhode Island, United States
Job Location Type: Remote
Job Contract Type: Full-time
Job Seniority Level:
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AWS Platform Technical Lead
Position Summary
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to lead our AWS Cloud Engineering team, owning the Amazon Web Services platform for the enterprise. This is a foundational platform role — you are the AWS technical authority, setting architectural direction,establishingengineering standards, and ensuring the platform is secure, scalable, and built to last.
You lead from the front. You design the systems others build on, mentor the engineers around you, and hold the line on quality and best practices. You bring deep AWSexpertise, a platform-owner mindset, and the leadership presence to align engineers and stakeholders around a shared technical vision. This role demands a cloud-first thinker who ensures cloud solutions meet business needs efficiently while prioritizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to create repeatable, automated deployments. You need to have a proventrack recordof architecting cloud environments from scratch .You'lldrive cloud transformation initiatives acrossall CSP’s with a focus on AWSplatforms while ensuring every design decision considers security, reliability, and scalability.
This is not a hands-off leadership role — you write code, review designs, and stay close to the work.
Major Responsibilities
1. AWS Platform Ownership
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Own the enterprise AWS platform end-to-end: AWS Organizations structure, account hierarchy, while collaborating with several teams to ensure the platform is stable and compliant.
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Define andmaintainthe AWS Landing Zone — AWS Control Tower, Service Control Policies (SCPs), billing controls, and account vending patterns — as the foundation all product teams build on.
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Serve as the final technical authority on AWS architecture decisions, reviewing designs for scalability, security, and operational excellence before they reach production.
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Build self-service platform capabilities that enable product engineering teams to move fast without compromising standards.
2. Technical Team Leadership
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Lead the AWS cloud engineering team as the technical anchor — set direction, conduct design reviews, unblock engineers, and drive delivery on platform initiatives.
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Establish and enforce engineering standards:IaCpatterns, naming conventions, tagging strategy, branching models, and deployment practices.
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Mentor engineers at all levels, building depth on the team and raising the bar on what “excellence” looks like in cloud engineering.
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Partner with architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders to translate enterprise requirements into platform capabilities.
3. Infrastructure as Code & Automation
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Design and own the Terraformframeworkfor all AWS resource provisioning — reusable modules, remote state management via S3/DynamoDB, pipeline integration, and policy guardrails.
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Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using AWSCodePipeline,CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, and Amazon ECR for both platform infrastructure and application teams.
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Write production-quality automation to extend platform functionality, integrate AWS APIs, andeliminateoperational toil.
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Implement policy-as-code using OPA, AWS Config Rules, and Service Control Policies to enforce governance at scale without manual gatekeeping.
4. Networking, Security & Compliance
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Architect andoperateAWS networking: