** Please note that Raleigh, NC would be the preferred location for this role. We are open to hiring on a remote basis in the United States, with the understanding that the selected individual will work a U.S. eastern time zone schedule. **
About Our Team:
LexisNexis Legal & Professional serves customers in over 150 countries with 11,800 employees globally. We are part of RELX, a provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company leads in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market, enhancing productivity and transforming the business and practice of law. We use ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible approach, prioritizing the best model for each legal use case.
About the Role:
As a Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer, you will help define best practices, establish cloud vision, mentor teams, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure our cloud infrastructure is robust, secure, scalable, resilient and cost-efficient. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence strategic cloud initiatives and build world-class cloud solutions that enable business agility and long-term innovation.
Responsibilities:
Cloud Strategy & Leadership
Develop and implement a comprehensive AWS cloud strategy, ensuring alignment with business and technology goals.
Provide technical leadership and advocacy, championing cloud-native best practices and innovation.
Lead and drive architectural decisions, ensuring scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
Cloud Architecture & Design
Architect secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud environments.
Develop and maintain enterprise-wide cloud blueprints, patterns, and frameworks to drive consistency.
Research and integrate emerging cloud technologies to foster continuous innovation.
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
Lead adoption and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Helm.
Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines to streamline cloud deployments and operations.
Implement self-healing and automated failover mechanisms to enhance resilience and reliability.
Kubernetes & Cloud-Native Technologies
Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS, Helm, IAM) for scalability and security.
Define and enforce best practices for containerized applications and orchestration.
Improve Kubernetes networking, ingress, and observability solutions to enhance performance.
Security & Compliance
Establish and enforce security best practices for AWS environments, including IAM, WAF, Secret Manager, and encryption.
Implement zero-trust security models and secure multi-account AWS environments.
Conduct security audits, incident response, and ensure compliance with industry standards.
Monitoring, Logging & Reliability Engineering
Deploy and manage monitoring tools (DataDog, Splunk, CloudWatch, Coralogix) to ensure visibility and observability.
Implement SRE principles to enhance system uptime, reliability, and efficiency.
Conduct post-mortem analysis and drive continuous improvements in cloud performance.
Collaboration & Thought Leadership
Work closely with software developers, system engineers, and security teams to design and implement cloud solutions.
Provide mentorship, training, and technical leadership to engineering teams.
Drive industry engagement by sharing expertise through public speaking, contributing to open-source projects, and participating in technical advisory boards.
Requirements:
10+ years of experience in IT, with at least 5+ years in AWS cloud engineering and architecture.
Deep understanding of AWS services, including EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Transit Gateway, and CloudFormation.
Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS, Helm, Daemon Sets, StatefulSets, Karpenter, external-dns, aws-cni).
Strong experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, and automation scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell).
Hands-on experience managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
Proficiency in monitoring and logging tools (DataDog, Splunk, Coralogix, CloudWatch).
Strong networking and security knowledge (DNS, VPC, NAT, Security Groups, IAM).
Experience designing and developing scalable, production-grade software tools and automation scripts using Python.
Preferred Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (or equivalent).
Additional certifications in Kubernetes (CKA), AWS Security, or DevOps are a plus.
Leadership & Soft Skills
Proven experience leading cloud architecture and strategy initiatives.
Ability to mentor and guide technical teams in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills in complex cloud environments.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for engineering, business, and executive stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to drive cultural change and advocate for cloud transformation.
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous well-being initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
Working for you
We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption, and surrogacy benefits
Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
About the Business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.
RELX is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK , or please contact 1-855-833-5120.
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