Cloud Platform Engineer - Landing Zone & Terraform Lead

Florida Blue Group; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GuideWell contractor role for a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to design and operate the foundational cloud environment. You’ll own the landing zone, multi-account structure, and Terraform module library as the company migrates from data centers.

You will lead the platform engineering team, set technical direction, review designs, and enable application teams to self-serve while ensuring security, logging, and governance across AWS GovCloud and commercial partitions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating a cloud infrastructure/platform engineering team in an AWS or Azure multi-account environment.
• Hands-on Terraform skills with reusable modules, state management, and pipeline-driven deployment.
• 1+ year leadership experience, training and mentoring when needed.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the landing zone: Organizations structure, OU model, account vending, guardrails.
• Build and maintain the Terraform module library and platform CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead the platform engineering team: set technical direction, assign and review work, mentor engineers, develop skills.
• Define reference architectures and enable application teams to self-serve.
• Review designs, author ADRs, and represent the platform in governance forums.
• Set up centralized logging and configuration monitoring using CloudTrail, Config, and CloudWatch.
• Detect and remediate configuration drift across accounts.
• Build automated account vending using Control Tower and Account Factory for Terraform.
• Build and maintain the Terraform module library that other teams consume, including versioning and testing.
• Working knowledge of cloud identity management, federation, and short-lived credential patterns.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals and encryption services.

Skills

Terraform

Cloud infrastructure

Leadership

Multi-account AWS/Azure

CI/CD

Logging & monitoring

Security/compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Job description

GuideWell contractor role for a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to design and operate the foundational cloud environment. You’ll own the landing zone, multi-account structure, and Terraform module library as the company migrates from data centers.

You will lead the platform engineering team, set technical direction, review designs, and enable application teams to self-serve while ensuring security, logging, and governance across AWS GovCloud and commercial partitions.