Principal Cloud Platform Engineer: Landing Zone Lead

Socket.dev; Jacksonville (FL); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Retirement Savings Plan with employer

Paid time off and holidays

Well-being days

Job summary

GuideWell is seeking a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to build and operate the foundational cloud environment used by application teams during migration from data centers. You will own the landing zone, multi-account structure, and Terraform module library, including automated account vending, guardrails, and centralized logging and monitoring.

You will lead the platform engineering team, define reference architectures, and enable self-service for application teams while representing the

Qualifications

• 8+ years of related experience building and operating a cloud infrastructure/platform engineering team in an AWS/Azure multi-account environment.
• 1+ year of leadership experience including supervisory, project team leadership, training, coaching, auditing, or providing day-to-day direction to team members.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

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

Terraform

Landing zone

Multi-account AWS

Leadership

CI/CD pipelines

Governance

Logging & monitoring

Policy as code

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

GuideWell is seeking a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to build and operate the foundational cloud environment used by application teams during migration from data centers. You will own the landing zone, multi-account structure, and Terraform module library, including automated account vending, guardrails, and centralized logging and monitoring.

You will lead the platform engineering team, define reference architectures, and enable self-service for application teams while representing the