Remote Principal Cloud Engineer: AWS Automation & Security

Motion Recruitment; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to lead enterprise AWS initiatives in a fully remote, full-time contract-to-hire role. You will design, automate, secure, and optimize cloud infrastructure, focusing on IAM, CloudFormation, SSM, and cost governance while partnering with security and application teams.

You'll drive automation, reliability, and scalability across multi-account AWS environments, mentor engineers, and influence enterprise cloud strategy while exploring

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and supporting enterprise AWS environments.
• Strong multi-account AWS architecture and engineering expertise.
• Hands-on IAM, SCPs, and policy management experience.
• SSM automation, patching, configuration, and server lifecycle management.
• IaC with AWS CloudFormation.
• Cloud networking, backups, and disaster recovery planning.
• Cost optimization and cloud governance practices.
• Scripting skills in Python, PowerShell and Bash.
• Windows and Linux server administration.
• Observability, monitoring, incident management.
• Strong troubleshooting and communication.
• Collaboration with infra, app, security teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead AWS cloud engineering efforts across enterprise environments.
• Design and implement automation for reliability and security.
• Drive cost optimization and governance initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align cloud strategy.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers.

Skills

AWS engineering

IaC automation

Security governance

Cost optimization

Cross-team collaboration

Education

AWS certification

Tools

AWS CloudFormation

Dynatrace

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to lead enterprise AWS initiatives in a fully remote, full-time contract-to-hire role. You will design, automate, secure, and optimize cloud infrastructure, focusing on IAM, CloudFormation, SSM, and cost governance while partnering with security and application teams.

You'll drive automation, reliability, and scalability across multi-account AWS environments, mentor engineers, and influence enterprise cloud strategy while exploring