Cloud Platform Engineering Lead | Landing Zone & Terraform

GuideWell; Jacksonville (FL); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability programs

Paid time off

Holidays and wellness benefits

Retirement plan with employer match

Job summary

GuideWell seeks a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to build and operate the foundational cloud environment, owning landing zone, multi‑account structure, and Terraform module library across AWS/ GovCloud. You will define reference architectures, enable self‑service for application teams, and govern platform standards in leadership forums.

You'll lead platform engineering, drive CI/CD pipelines, set technical direction, and mentor engineers while ensuring centralized logging, security

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure in AWS/Azure multi-account environments.
• Hands-on Terraform with reusable modules, state management, and pipeline-driven deployment.
• 1+ year of leadership including supervisory or team-direction experience.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Knowledge of cloud identity management, federation, and short-lived credential patterns.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking and encryption services.

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

Skills

Landing zone design

Multi-account AWS

Terraform modules

Team leadership

Guardrails

CI/CD pipelines

Governance

CloudWatch/CloudTrail Config

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Control Tower

Account Factory

GovCloud

Job description

GuideWell seeks a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to build and operate the foundational cloud environment, owning landing zone, multi‑account structure, and Terraform module library across AWS/ GovCloud. You will define reference architectures, enable self‑service for application teams, and govern platform standards in leadership forums.

You'll lead platform engineering, drive CI/CD pipelines, set technical direction, and mentor engineers while ensuring centralized logging, security