Principal Engineer

Florida Blue Group; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GuideWell contractor role for a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to design and operate the foundational cloud environment. You’ll own the landing zone, multi-account structure, and Terraform module library as the company migrates from data centers.

You will lead the platform engineering team, set technical direction, review designs, and enable application teams to self-serve while ensuring security, logging, and governance across AWS GovCloud and commercial partitions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating a cloud infrastructure/platform engineering team in an AWS or Azure multi-account environment.
• Hands-on Terraform skills with reusable modules, state management, and pipeline-driven deployment.
• 1+ year leadership experience, training and mentoring when needed.

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.
• Working knowledge of cloud identity management, federation, and short-lived credential patterns.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals and encryption services.

Skills

Terraform

Cloud infrastructure

Leadership

Multi-account AWS/Azure

CI/CD

Logging & monitoring

Security/compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Job description

This is a contract opportunity. You will be employed by Magnit to work on assignment with GuideWell and subsidiary companies including Florida Blue.

The Principal Cloud Platform Engineer builds and operates the foundational cloud environment that GuideWell's application teams build on as the company migrates off its existing data centers. This role owns the landing zone, multi-account structure, and Terraform module library across commercial and GovCloud partitions, including automated account vending, guardrails, and centralized logging and monitoring. The engineer defines reference architectures and self-service patterns, reviews application and integrator designs against platform standards, and represents the platform in governance forums.

Position Details/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.
• Working knowledge of cloud identity management, federation, and short-lived credential patterns.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals and encryption services.

Required Work Experience

• 8+ years related work experience building and operating a cloud infrastructure/platform engineering team in an AWS or Azure multi-account environment including hands-on experience with landing zone design.
• Hands-on Terraform skills, including reusable modules, state management, and pipeline-driven deployment.
• 1+ year leadership experience, training, mentoring when needed

Required Education

• Related Bachelor's degree required

Preferred Experience/Certifications

• AWS Cloud Certifications
• Azure Cloud Certifications
• VMware exit or large data center migration experience.
• AWS GovCloud, including partition boundaries, service parity gaps, and separate account structures.
• Kubernetes, OpenShift, or EKS experience.
• FedRAMP Moderate or High environments.
• Policy as code using Open Policy Agent, Sentinel, or equivalent.
• Healthcare, financial services, or other regulated industry experience.

GuideWell and its family of companies has partnered with Magnit as its Managed Service Provider (MSP) and Employer of Record (EOR) since 2018. In May of 2025, GuideWell joined Magnit Direct Source to implement the GuideWell Contractor Cohort. This program is designed to create, manage and curate a contractor talent pool for temporary contract opportunities with GuideWell. As a contractor working on temporary assignment with GuideWell, you'll be employed by Magnit. You'll have the opportunity to work on temporary projects at GuideWell companies that make a real difference in people's lives while enjoying the benefits of being part of the Magnit team.