Remote Principal Cloud Engineer - AWS & Automation

Motion Recruitment; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybride; USD 160 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer for a fully remote, contract-to-hire role. You will lead AWS architecture, design scalable enterprise cloud infrastructure, and automate security and cost optimization across multiple accounts.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, application, and security teams, drive modernization efforts, and mentor engineers while hands-on with AWS, IaC, SSM, and automation tooling.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise AWS environments.
• Strong AWS architecture and engineering across multi-account environments.
• Hands-on IAM, policies, roles, trust relationships, permission sets, and SCPs.
• Experience with AWS Systems Manager (SSM) including automation, patch management, config management, and server lifecycle.
• Strong IaC experience, specifically with AWS CloudFormation.
• Experience with cloud networking, backups, and disaster recovery planning.
• Experience managing and optimizing cloud costs and governance.
• Scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, and Bash.
• Experience administering Windows and Linux servers.
• Experience with cloud monitoring, observability, performance optimization, and incident management.
• Strong troubleshooting and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate with technical teams and business stakeholders to implement best practices.

Responsabilités

• 60% Hands-on engineering, automation, and troubleshooting.
• 25% Technical leadership, architecture, platform improvement.
• 15% Cross-functional collaboration with infrastructure, application, and security teams.

Connaissances

AWS architecture

AWS cloud engineering

IAM & SCPs

SSM

CloudFormation

IaC

Cloud networking

Disaster recovery

Cost optimization

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Windows & Linux

Observability & monitoring

Incident management & troubleshooting

Communication & collaboration

Formation

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Outils

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Dynatrace

Kubernetes

API management platforms

Azure / GCP familiarity

SQL Server / PostgreSQL

Java / .NET

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Description du poste

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer for a fully remote, contract-to-hire role. You will lead AWS architecture, design scalable enterprise cloud infrastructure, and automate security and cost optimization across multiple accounts.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, application, and security teams, drive modernization efforts, and mentor engineers while hands-on with AWS, IaC, SSM, and automation tooling.