Principal Cloud Architect

Early Warning; United States; Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

401(k) Matching

Paid Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Maven Family Planning

Job summary

Early Warning is modernizing its cloud platform and migrating mission-critical applications to AWS, delivering scalable, secure services across teams. The Principal Engineer - Cloud Engineering partners with security, risk, and architecture groups to enable high-performance cloud-native solutions while balancing productivity with regulatory requirements.

The role leads architectural direction, defines guardrails, and mentors engineers, driving observability, disaster recovery, and cost-efficient

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
• 15+ years of experience in cloud/infra/DevOps roles.
• 5+ years designing and operating AWS at enterprise scale.
• Deep expertise in AWS services, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
• Experience leading architecture and technical direction across teams.
• Strong CI/CD, security, and operational readiness practices.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and communicate clearly.

Responsibilities

• Define cloud engineering strategy, standards, and reference architectures.
• Lead design of scalable, secure, cost-optimized AWS-based solutions.
• Drive infrastructure as code and CI/CD with Terraform and related tools.
• Partner with security, risk, and compliance to meet regulatory requirements.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and guide audits.
• Establish disaster recovery, high availability, and observability practices.
• Shape roadmaps and investment decisions for cloud adoption and platform consistency.

Skills

AWS expertise

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Cloud security

Observability

Technical leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Splunk

AppDynamics

Job description

Early Warning is modernizing its cloud platform and migrating mission-critical applications to AWS, delivering scalable, secure services across teams. The Principal Engineer - Cloud Engineering partners with security, risk, and architecture groups to enable high-performance cloud-native solutions while balancing productivity with regulatory requirements.

The role leads architectural direction, defines guardrails, and mentors engineers, driving observability, disaster recovery, and cost-efficient