[Remote] Cloud Principal Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Centric Software is a global leader providing an innovative and AI-enabled product-concept-to-commercialization platform for various brands. They are seeking a Cloud Principal Engineer to define the cloud strategy, build a team, and deliver measurable business outcomes across cost optimization and application modernization.
Responsibilities
- Work in Defining the cloud engineering operating model and role boundaries across DevOps, Cloud Ops, and R&D teams
- Build and mentor the initial cloud engineering team and hire pipeline
- Prioritize roadmap initiatives into quarterly execution plans with clear owners and milestones
- Establish platform and automation standards for infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD integration, security controls, and reliability
- Lead cross-functional programs that require coordinated cloud, platform, and application changes
- Ensure decisions are evidence-driven with transparent measurement and reporting
Skills
- 5+ years in cloud/platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure leadership roles
- 3+ years leading cross-functional technical programs with direct business impact
- Strong hands-on depth in at least two of the following: Kubernetes platforms, cloud infrastructure automation, cost optimization, observability, CI/CD systems
- Experience across AWS and Azure in production environments
- Proven ability to translate business goals into technical roadmap execution
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Managed Kubernetes platforms: EKS and/or AKS architecture and operations
- Infrastructure as Code: strong hands-on depth in Terraform or OpenTofu or Pulumi
- Cloud automation and scripting: Python and/or TypeScript for workflow and operations automation
- CI/CD implementation: Git-based pipelines, environment promotion, release controls, rollback patterns
- Cloud security foundations: IAM, secrets management, policy enforcement, and least-privilege design
- Cost optimization engineering: rightsizing, idle resource remediation, schedule automation, and governance controls
- Observability foundations: metrics, logs, traces, alert design, and SLO-oriented operating practices
- Configuration management and systems automation (Ansible or equivalent)
- Experience evaluating or migrating monitoring stacks (for example, Datadog alternatives)
- Experience with Kafka platform migrations, including Kafka-as-a-Service adoption
- Experience enabling ARM64 migration and multi-arch build/deployment practices
- Experience driving stateless architecture transitions and config externalization patterns
- Experience leading cloud transformation in multi-tenant or regulated environments
- Experience with FinOps practices and cost governance operating models
- Experience with platform migration programs (for example, KaaS, ARM, stateless modernization)
- Experience hiring and developing high-performing platform teams
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