Principal AWS Resiliency Architect

Insight Global; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global seeks a Principal Engineer to own the resiliency strategy for a large-scale AWS environment. This role defines availability standards, leads BC/DR initiatives, and drives high-availability architectures across infrastructure, containers, data platforms, and engineering teams.

The successful candidate has 12+ years in engineering with 7+ in resiliency, extensive AWS multi-account/multi-region experience, and a proven ability to balance reliability with cost and complexity.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering experience, incl. 7+ years owning resiliency architecture.
• Deep AWS experience across multi-account, multi-region environments.
• Proven BC/DR strategy, automated failover and RTO/RPO testing.

Responsibilities

• Own AWS resiliency strategy, availability standards, and multi-AZ/multi-region architecture.
• Define active-active, active-passive, warm-standby, and pilot-light patterns.
• Lead BC/DR planning, including RTO/RPO targets, automated failover, runbooks, DR testing, and game days.
• Conduct AWS Well-Architected Reviews and drive remediation efforts.
• Build resiliency across ECS/Fargate, EKS, Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and S3.
• Automate recovery using IaC, self-healing, drift detection, and fault injection.
• Establish SLOs, error budgets, health checks, dependency mapping, and observability standards.
• Lead availability incident response and convert recurring failures into architectural improvements.

Skills

Senior engineering

Resiliency architecture

AWS multi-account

EKS / ECS

Terraform / IaC

BC/DR planning

Chaos engineering

Observability & SLOs

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Terraform/IaC

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Insight Global seeks a Principal Engineer to own the resiliency strategy for a large-scale AWS environment. This role defines availability standards, leads BC/DR initiatives, and drives high-availability architectures across infrastructure, containers, data platforms, and engineering teams.

The successful candidate has 12+ years in engineering with 7+ in resiliency, extensive AWS multi-account/multi-region experience, and a proven ability to balance reliability with cost and complexity.