Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS Microservices & Kubernetes

Fidelity Investments Inc.; North Carolina; On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Investments Inc. seeks an experienced Principal Cloud Engineer in North Carolina to design and deliver Java/Spring-based applications on AWS.

You will drive cloud-native architectures, implement microservices, and guide SDLC practices across complex, multi-project initiatives. The role requires deep expertise in AWS services (EKS, Batch, StepFunction, Lambda, RDS), Java/J2EE, Spring, and modern CI/CD tooling.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated Expertise in Object-Oriented Design and Java Web app development using Java/J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring Security, RESTful services, and cloud-native deployments.
• Experience gathering requirements and translating them into system specifications for enterprise web services and APIs.
• Proven ability to provision AWS cloud infrastructure components (Batch, ECS/EKS, RDS) for data analysis and real-time processing.
• Designing real-time data ingestion pipelines and microservices architectures for business-to-business environments.

Responsibilities

• Participates in architecture design teams.
• Defines and implements application-level architecture.
• Develops applications on complex projects and subsystems.
• Establishes GitHub branching strategies and SDLC/SCM best practices.
• Recommends testing tools and validates test plans.
• Ensures QA readiness of software deliverables.
• Develops documentation for multiple applications.
• Plans full project life cycles across platforms.
• Meets project goals on-time and on-budget.
• Advises on risk assessment and management.
• Coordinates schedules for multiple projects.
• Acts as liaison for business units to resolve issues.
• Provides technology solutions and estimates for initiatives.
• Advises senior management on technical strategy.
• Mentors junior team members.
• Performs complex technical/functional analysis for multiple projects.
• Develops creative technical solutions for ongoing development.

Skills

OOD & Java

Java Web apps

Spring MVC

RESTful services

Microservices

AWS Cloud

CI/CD

Oracle DB

Aerospike caching

Requirements gathering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computing/Engineering/IT or related field

Master’s degree in Computing/Engineering/IT or related field

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

Oracle configuration server

CloudFormation

Job description

Fidelity Investments Inc. seeks an experienced Principal Cloud Engineer in North Carolina to design and deliver Java/Spring-based applications on AWS.

You will drive cloud-native architectures, implement microservices, and guide SDLC practices across complex, multi-project initiatives. The role requires deep expertise in AWS services (EKS, Batch, StepFunction, Lambda, RDS), Java/J2EE, Spring, and modern CI/CD tooling.