Senior AWS Cloud Engineer & Tech Lead (Remote, ET)

LexisNexis; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 115,400 - 192,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with match

Wellbeing program

Paid leave

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is seeking a Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer to design, build, and guide secure, scalable AWS platforms. You will partner with engineering, security, and product teams to implement automation, Kubernetes and serverless patterns, observability, and cost‑effective innovation.

The role combines hands-on cloud engineering with technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance to support business agility and reliability across AWS environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering or IT experience, with 5+ years focused on AWS cloud engineering or cloud architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure, highly available AWS environments.
• Implement reusable AWS infrastructure patterns across compute, networking, storage, identity, containers, serverless, and database services.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code modules, templates, and pipelines.
• Build and support Kubernetes and container-based workloads on AWS, including EKS.
• Mentor engineers on AWS, Kubernetes, automation, security, and platform engineering best practices.
• Communicate technical recommendations clearly to engineering partners and leadership.

Skills

AWS cloud engineering

Automation & platform engineering

Mentoring

Communication

Kubernetes & Docker

SRE & observability

CI/CD & GitOps

Security & compliance

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud cost optimization

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is seeking a Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer to design, build, and guide secure, scalable AWS platforms. You will partner with engineering, security, and product teams to implement automation, Kubernetes and serverless patterns, observability, and cost‑effective innovation.

The role combines hands-on cloud engineering with technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance to support business agility and reliability across AWS environments.