The Principal Cloud Engineer will lead the design, automation, and maintenance of AWS infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and cost optimization.
The Opportunity
As the Principal Cloud Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in leading the architecture, automation, and maintenance of our AWS cloud infrastructure. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that our infrastructure scales efficiently, stays secure, and operates at peak performance. This role demands an expert in AWS services, infrastructure automation, and a deep understanding of cost optimization, security best practices, and disaster recovery strategies.
Responsibilities- Design, implement, and manage highly scalable, secure, and cost-optimized AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Lead the automation of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
- Ensure high availability and reliability of systems, implementing disaster recovery and failover strategies.
- Collaborate with software development and data teams to optimize cloud architecture for large-scale data systems.
- Implement and maintain security best practices, including monitoring, threat detection, and vulnerability mitigation.
- Work on optimizing AWS costs while ensuring the infrastructure meets performance and scalability requirements.
- Stay current with the latest cloud technologies, and continuously improve the cloud environment with new tools and services.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, promoting best practices in cloud operations and architecture.
- Monitor and respond to infrastructure incidents, ensuring timely resolutions and minimal downtime.
Skillset
- Minimum of 7 years of experience managing AWS cloud infrastructure at scale.
- Strong understanding of core AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, etc.) and expertise in designing and managing multi-region, scalable cloud architectures.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
- Proven track record of managing and optimizing cloud costs, using tools like AWS Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, or other cost-management platforms.
- Experience scaling large data systems (including databases, data lakes, and big data platforms) across distributed cloud environments.
- Expertise in disaster recovery planning, implementation, and management within a cloud infrastructure.
- Solid understanding of cloud security, including IAM policies, encryption, network security, and proactive threat and vulnerability mitigation strategies.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK stack, Prometheus) to ensure infrastructure health and performance.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders, including non-technical team members.
Nice-to-Haves:
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty).
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation.
- Experience in a startup or fast-growing technology company.
- 7+ years experience designing, implementing, and securing enterprise AWS infrastructure and services.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent years of work experience.
Since 2015, Seamless.AI has helped sales teams maximize revenue with the world’s first real-time B2B search engine. As one of Ohio’s fastest-growing companies, we’ve earned top industry accolades, including G2’s 2025 Best Software Products (#1 Highest Satisfaction Product), Purpose Jobs’ 2024 Best Places to Work, and LinkedIn’s Top 50 Tech Startups (2020, 2022, 2023). We are committed to a diverse, inclusive workplace and do not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or other protected statuses. Visa sponsorship is not available; applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Top Skills
AWS
CloudFormation
Elk Stack
Prometheus
Terraform
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