Principal AWS Resiliency Architect

Insight Global; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Principal Engineer to own the resiliency strategy and reference architecture for a large-scale AWS environment in Austin. You will establish availability standards, lead business continuity and disaster recovery initiatives, and drive high-availability architecture across infrastructure, containers, data platforms, and engineering teams.

This role requires 12+ years of engineering, hands-on AWS across multi-account/multi-region environments, and strong

Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering experience with senior ownership of resiliency or high-availability architecture.
• Hands-on AWS expertise across multi-account/multi-region environments, networking, IAM, Route 53, load balancing, and Global Accelerator.
• Proven ownership of multi-AZ/multi-region architecture, BC/DR strategy, automated failover, and recovery testing.
• Expertise with AWS Well-Architected Framework and production container platforms (EKS, ECS/Fargate).
• Data resiliency with Aurora/RDS and at least one of DynamoDB, ElastiCache, or S3 replication.
• Advanced Terraform/IaC and infrastructure CI/CD, including state management and drift detection.
• Chaos engineering, observability, SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.
• Strong cross-functional leadership balancing availability, cost, risk and complexity.

Responsibilities

• Own AWS resiliency strategy and availability standards across multi-AZ/multi-region architecture.
• Define patterns for active-active, active-passive, warm-standby, and pilot-light deployments.
• Lead BC/DR planning with RTO/RPO targets, automated failover, runbooks and disaster testing.
• Conduct AWS Well-Architected Reviews and drive remediation.
• Build resiliency across ECS/Fargate, EKS, Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and S3.
• Automate recovery with IaC, self-healing, drift detection, and fault injection.
• Establish SLOs, health checks, dependency mapping and observability standards.
• Lead availability incident response and translate failures into architectural improvements.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, finance and business leaders to balance reliability, cost, and risk.

Skills

AWS resiliency

Multi-account AWS

BC/DR planning

RTO/RPO

EKS & ECS/Fargate

Aurora/RDS & DynamoDB/ElastiCache/S3

Terraform/IaC

Chaos engineering

Observability & SLOs

Incident response

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Terraform

Job description

• 12+ years of engineering experience, including 7+ years owning large-scale resiliency or high-availability architecture.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience across multi-account, multi-region environments, networking, IAM, Route 53, load balancing, and Global Accelerator.
• Proven ownership of multi-AZ/multi-region architecture, BC/DR strategy, automated failover, RTO/RPO, and recovery testing.
• Expertise in the AWS Well-Architected Framework and production container platforms, including EKS and ECS/Fargate.
• Strong data resiliency experience with Aurora/RDS and at least one of DynamoDB, ElastiCache, or S3 replication.
• Advanced Terraform/IaC and infrastructure CI/CD experience, including state management, guardrails, and drift detection.
• Hands-on experience with chaos engineering, observability, SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.
• Strong cross-functional leadership with the ability to balance availability, cost, risk, and operational complexity.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Experience with AWS resiliency tools, infrastructure orchestration platforms, and SRE practices.
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification or equivalent expertise.
• Experience modeling redundancy costs and presenting tradeoffs to business stakeholders.
• Background integrating AWS environments after a merger or acquisition.
• Experience supporting regulated or mission-critical environments.

Job Description

Seeking a Principal Engineer to own the resiliency strategy and reference architecture for a large-scale AWS environment. This individual will establish availability standards, lead business continuity and disaster recovery initiatives, and drive high-availability architecture across infrastructure, containers, data platforms, and engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

- Own AWS resiliency strategy, availability standards, and multi-AZ/multi-region architecture.

- Define appropriate 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.

- Partner with engineering, product, finance, and business leaders to balance reliability, cost, and operational complexity.

This is a hybrid position in Austin Texas and pays between $180,000 and $210,000 per year.