Principal Cloud Engineer

• You have 8+ years of experience of relevant industry experience.
  
• You are proficient in one or more major cloud platforms, such as Azure (preference), Google Cloud, AWS or others.
  
• You have experience with modularized IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and industry tooling e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer and Configuration management, Secrets Management (Consul, Vault, KMS systems, Consul Template).
  
• You are knowledgeable about Containerization technologies: Docker/ContainerD, Kubernetes (K8S, K3S), container registries and artifact tools (e.g. Artifactory, GCR, ACR, ECR).
  

You are confident about microservices principles and best practices for designing scalable and modular architectures including API Gateway technologies and best practices.

• You have an understanding of event-driven architecture principles and best practices and tooling (e.g. Pub/Sub, Kafka etc)and are familiar with serverless computing services and functions (e.g. Azure Functions, AWS Lambda etc)
  
• You are proficient in cloud networking concepts, including VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancing, Firewalling (including WAF), and security groups.
  
• You are passionate about cloud security best practices, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and security group configurations, SAST & DAST tooling (CrowdStrike, Qwiet.AI, Prisma Cloud etc).
  
• You have knowledge with cloud monitoring and logging tools like AWS CloudWatch, EFK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic etc and have knowledge of diagramming tools and methodologies (e.g. Miro, Diagrams.net, Figjam, Mermaid.JS etc).
  
• Bonus points If you have a bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent.
  

Requirements

• Contribute to and maintain our organization wide Architecture Decision Records.
  
• Responsible for Cloud Policies, Procedures and Standards Including disaster resiliency, recovery and availability planning, IaC (use and quality gating) and Cloud technology stack/services consultancy and selection in accordance with technical and quality requirements (scalability, performance, security, compliance).
  
• Accountable for our Cloud Operational Practices such as Cloud infrastructure TCO modeling and optimization and Capacity planning by continuously monitoring of the utilized resources and demand trends.
  
• Only candidates local to Chicago.
  
• Only GC and US citizen.