AWS Cloud Platform Architect & DevOps Leader

Meso Scale Diagnostics LLC; Rockville (MD); Hybrid; USD 116,600 - 177,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Job summary

MSD is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to lead the design, build, and operation of our AWS cloud platform across manufacturing, commercial, CRO, and SaaS segments. You will set standards, mentor engineers, and stay hands-on in architecting infrastructure, automating pipelines, and supporting production workloads.

You will lead Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams, partner across cybersecurity, enterprise systems, and product groups, and drive automation and secure-by-design practices with a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline; equivalent combination of education and experience considered.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles.
• Minimum 7 years of hands-on AWS engineering experience across core services (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, VPC, IAM, KMS, CloudFront, API Gateway, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail).
• Minimum 3 years of demonstrated people-leadership experience: managing engineers, setting goals, conducting performance reviews, and developing team capability.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation, and/or AWS CDK at scale, including module design and reuse, state management, and CI-integrated workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams, set technical direction, establish standards, conduct performance conversations, recruit and onboard new talent.
• Architect, build, and operate MSD’s AWS environment across multiple accounts with a focus on availability, security, scalability, and recoverability.
• Stay hands-on: write/review Terraform, author CI/CD pipelines, debug incidents, optimize performance, contribute long-term code.
• Own and evolve Infrastructure-as-Code standards and tooling, including module libraries and state management.
• Operate container platforms (ECS, EKS, EC2, Lambda) and supporting tooling (Helm, ArgoCD) and security controls.
• Design and operate cloud networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect) with on-prem and partner integrations.
• Own CI/CD platform (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) and developer tooling for secure, quality delivery.
• Partner with Cybersecurity on IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, AWS Config, vulnerability management, SIEM integration.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS engineering

Leadership

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Security engineering

Python/Bash scripting

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/IS

Master’s preferred

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Helm

ArgoCD

Job description

MSD is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to lead the design, build, and operation of our AWS cloud platform across manufacturing, commercial, CRO, and SaaS segments. You will set standards, mentor engineers, and stay hands-on in architecting infrastructure, automating pipelines, and supporting production workloads.

You will lead Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams, partner across cybersecurity, enterprise systems, and product groups, and drive automation and secure-by-design practices with a