Principal Cloud Engineer - Scientific Data and AI

Evolution USA; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Evolution USA is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design and evolve cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment systems that accelerate engineering teams. The role focuses on building scalable cloud-native platforms, improving developer productivity, and ensuring reliability in a modern cloud environment.

You will drive platform strategy, partner with software engineers, and implement IaC, observability, and security best practices to enable rapid, safe software delivery at scale.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps roles.
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Proven success building CI/CD platforms and deployment automation.
• Strong software engineering and automation skills, particularly with Python.
• Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes or ECS.
• Solid understanding of modern software delivery practices and cloud infrastructure design.
• Experience operating and supporting complex production environments.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple engineering teams and influence technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Designing and evolving cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
• Building and improving deployment systems, release automation, and engineering workflows.
• Creating self-service capabilities that reduce friction for development teams.
• Developing automation and tooling to improve scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Driving improvements in developer experience and engineering productivity.
• Building and maintaining highly available cloud-native systems.
• Partnering closely with software engineers to improve how applications are built, tested, and deployed.
• Implementing best practices around observability, monitoring, security, and incident response.
• Influencing platform architecture and engineering standards across multiple teams.

Skills

Platform Engineering

Cloud Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering

DevOps

Terraform

Python

Kubernetes

ECS

AWS

CI/CD

Automation

Observability

Security

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

ECS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

We are partnering with a growing software company that is investing heavily in its cloud platform and engineering infrastructure.

This is a highly visible, hands-on engineering role focused on building the systems, tooling, and cloud architecture that enable engineering teams to develop, deploy, and operate software at scale.

The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping platform strategy, improving developer productivity, increasing deployment velocity, and ensuring platform reliability across a modern cloud environment.

This is not a traditional operations role. We are looking for an engineer who solves infrastructure and scalability challenges through software, automation, and platform design.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Designing and evolving cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
• Building and improving deployment systems, release automation, and engineering workflows
• Creating self-service capabilities that reduce friction for development teams
• Developing automation and tooling to improve scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency
• Driving improvements in developer experience and engineering productivity
• Building and maintaining highly available cloud-native systems
• Partnering closely with software engineers to improve how applications are built, tested, and deployed
• Implementing best practices around observability, monitoring, security, and incident response
• Influencing platform architecture and engineering standards across multiple teams

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Significant experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps roles
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS and cloud-native architectures
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Proven success building CI/CD platforms and deployment automation
• Strong software engineering and automation skills, particularly with Python
• Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes or ECS
• Solid understanding of modern software delivery practices and cloud infrastructure design
• Experience operating and supporting complex production environments
• Ability to collaborate with multiple engineering teams and influence technical decisions

IDEAL BACKGROUND

You have likely worked in environments where:

• Engineering teams rely on platforms and automation to deploy software independently
• Infrastructure is managed through code rather than manual processes
• Reliability, scalability, and security are critical business requirements
• Developer experience is viewed as a strategic priority
• Cloud infrastructure supports large-scale software products and services

WHY THIS ROLE?

This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on how an engineering organization builds, deploys, and operates software. You'll help shape the future of the platform, influence engineering practices, and build capabilities that enable teams to move faster while maintaining high standards of reliability and security.

If you enjoy building platforms, automating everything possible, and creating systems that help engineers deliver great software, we'd love to hear from you.