Principal Engineer – Cloud Platform

Jobtailor; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to design and operate the landing zone and multi-account AWS/Azure environments, focusing on Terraform module development and scalable CI/CD pipelines. You will lead the platform engineering team, set technical direction, review designs, and enable application teams to self-serve while protecting governance and security standards.

This role requires hands-on expertise in landing zones, Terraform, Control Tower, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and modern

Qualifications

• 8+ years related work experience.
• Experience building and operating a cloud infrastructure/platform engineering team in an AWS or Azure multi-account environment.
• Hands-on experience with landing zone design.
• Hands-on Terraform skills, including reusable modules, state management, and pipeline-driven deployment.
• 1+ year leadership experience, including direct supervisory experience, project team leadership, training, coaching, auditing, or providing day-to-day direction to team members.
• Related Bachelor's degree required
• Working knowledge of cloud identity management, federation, and short-lived credential patterns.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals and encryption services.
• AWS Cloud Certifications preferred
• Azure Cloud Certifications preferred
• VMware exit or large data center migration experience preferred
• AWS GovCloud experience preferred
• Kubernetes, OpenShift, or EKS experience preferred
• FedRAMP Moderate or High environments experience preferred
• Policy as code using Open Policy Agent, Sentinel, or equivalent preferred
• Healthcare, financial services, or other regulated industry experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Design and build the landing zone, including Organizations structure, OU model, account vending, and guardrails
• Build and maintain the Terraform module library and platform CI/CD pipelines
• Lead the platform engineering team by setting technical direction, assigning and reviewing work, mentoring engineers, and developing skills
• Define reference architectures and enable application teams to self-serve
• Review designs and author ADRs
• 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
• Maintain the Terraform module library consumed by other teams, including versioning and testing
• Build and operate the foundational cloud environment supporting GuideWell application teams as the company migrates off existing data centers
• Own the landing zone, multi-account structure, and Terraform module library across commercial and GovCloud partitions

Skills

Terraform

Landing Zone Design

CI/CD Pipelines

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Control Tower

CloudTrail

CloudWatch

Automated Account Vending

GovCloud / AWS GovCloud

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Control Tower

CloudTrail

CloudWatch

Job description

• Design and build the landing zone, including Organizations structure, OU model, account vending, and guardrails
• Build and maintain the Terraform module library and platform CI/CD pipelines
• Lead the platform engineering team by setting technical direction, assigning and reviewing work, mentoring engineers, and developing skills
• Define reference architectures and enable application teams to self-serve
• Review designs and author ADRs
• 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
• Maintain the Terraform module library consumed by other teams, including versioning and testing
• Build and operate the foundational cloud environment supporting GuideWell application teams as the company migrates off existing data centers
• Own the landing zone, multi-account structure, and Terraform module library across commercial and GovCloud partitions

Requirements

• 8+ years related work experience
• Experience building and operating a cloud infrastructure/platform engineering team in an AWS or Azure multi-account environment
• Hands-on experience with landing zone design
• Hands-on Terraform skills, including reusable modules, state management, and pipeline-driven deployment
• 1+ year(s) leadership experience, including direct supervisory experience, project team leadership, training, coaching, auditing, or providing day-to-day direction to team members
• Related Bachelor's degree required
• Working knowledge of cloud identity management, federation, and short-lived credential patterns
• Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals and encryption services
• AWS Cloud Certifications preferred
• Azure Cloud Certifications preferred
• VMware exit or large data center migration experience preferred
• AWS GovCloud experience preferred
• Kubernetes, OpenShift, or EKS experience preferred
• FedRAMP Moderate or High environments experience preferred
• Policy as code using Open Policy Agent, Sentinel, or equivalent preferred
• Healthcare, financial services, or other regulated industry experience preferred

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and building cloud infrastructure, particularly in AWS or Azure environments, with a strong focus on Terraform module development and CI/CD pipeline management. Proven leadership in guiding platform engineering teams and ensuring compliance with governance standards.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Terraform Module Development
• AWS Cloud Infrastructure
• Cloud Identity Management
• Leadership Experience
• Cloud Networking Fundamentals

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Landing Zone Design
• Terraform
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Configuration Monitoring
• Automated Account Vending
• CloudTrail
• CloudWatch
• Control Tower
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift

Soft Skills

• Mentoring
• Team Leadership
• Communication

Certifications & Qualifications

• AWS Cloud Certifications
• Azure Cloud Certifications

Industry Keywords

• Healthcare
• Financial Services
• Regulated Industry
• FedRAMP Moderate
• FedRAMP High

Tools & Technologies

• AWS
• Azure
• Terraform
• Control Tower
• CloudTrail
• CloudWatch