Senior Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer

RELX Inc. Company; North Carolina; Remote; USD 118,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

401(k) with match

Wellbeing programs

Paid time off

Family benefits

Headspace app

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional seeks a Senior Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer to drive technical strategy, AWS expertise, and architectural leadership across multi‑cloud and hybrid environments.

You will mentor engineers, define enterprise patterns, and lead security, reliability, and performance optimization using AWS services, Kubernetes, IaC, and automation.

Qualifications

• 12+ years IT experience with 7+ years in AWS cloud engineering, architecture, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise-wide AWS architectural patterns and governance.
• Architect hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud solutions with on-prem and SaaS integrations.
• Lead multi-account strategy using AWS Control Tower and IAM governance.
• Design and optimize Kubernetes-based microservices (EKS, Helm).
• Implement IaC and automation for provisioning and scaling (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK).
• Establish zero-trust security principles and compliance automation (KMS, WAF, GuardDuty).
• Drive SRE practices, incident response, and real-time observability.

Skills

AWS cloud architecture

Kubernetes

DevOps

Infrastructure as Code

Security architecture

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Please note that Raleigh, NC would be the preferred location for this role. We are open to hiring on a remote basis in the United States, with the understanding that the selected individual will work a U.S. eastern time zone schedule.

About Our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional serves customers in over 150 countries with 11,800 employees globally. We are part of RELX, a provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company leads in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market, enhancing productivity and transforming the business and practice of law. We use ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible approach, prioritizing the best model for each legal use case.

About the Role

As a Senior Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer, you will provide technical strategy, deep AWS expertise, and architectural leadership, guiding teams and influencing multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud best practices. The ideal candidate is an expert in AWS, Kubernetes, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and security architectures, with a strong ability to mentor and drive technical decision-making. This is an advanced individual contributor role with a focus on enterprise-level impact, bridging hands‑on engineering, architecture, and technical strategy.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Cloud Architecture & Design Architect: highly available, fault‑tolerant, and scalable AWS cloud environments, optimizing for security, cost, and performance.
• Define enterprise‑wide AWS architectural patterns, frameworks, and best practices to ensure standardization and operational excellence.
• Lead AWS multi‑account strategy, implementing AWS Control Tower, Organizations, and IAM governance.
• Architect hybrid‑cloud and multi‑cloud solutions, integrating on‑prem and SaaS platforms with AWS.
• Design and optimize Kubernetes‑based microservices architectures (i.e. EKS, Helm, Istio).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation: Lead the implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CDK. Automate cloud provisioning, configuration management, and infrastructure scaling.
• Enhance self‑healing architectures, implementing automated failover, auto‑scaling policies, and event‑driven automation.
• Review and continue to develop multi‑region fail‑over and high availability (HA) strategies using various AWS services.
• Security & Compliance Architecture: Establish zero‑trust security principles, embedding encryption, IAM least privilege, and AWS security automation. Implement and manage AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS WAF, AWS KMS, and IAM boundary policies.
• Drive compliance and risk management, ensuring SOC2, HIPAA, PCI‑DSS, and GDPR requirements are met.
• Architect secure Kubernetes workloads, leveraging Pod Security Policies, and AWS IAM roles for service accounts.
• Cloud‑Native Technologies & Performance Optimization: Optimize AWS serverless architectures, integrating Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, and EventBridge.
• Improve Kubernetes networking, ingress control, and observability, leveraging AWS ALB, Nginx, and Service Mesh.
• Architect event‑driven architectures for real‑time applications using AWS Kinesis, SQS, SNS, and DynamoDB Streams.
• Design and implement high‑performance cloud storage and database architectures using AWS Aurora, Redshift, DynamoDB, and Elasticache.
• Observability, SRE, & Cloud Operations Excellence: Establish enterprise‑wide cloud monitoring strategies, using AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk, and Coralogix.
• Assist in driving SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) principles, enhancing incident response, automated remediations, and operational excellence.
• Develop real‑time logging and event correlation to enable predictive analytics and anomaly detection in AWS environments.
• Technical Mentorship & Thought Leadership: Act as a senior technical authority, mentoring Principal and Senior Cloud Engineers in AWS best practices.
• Lead internal AWS technical reviews, architecture discussions, and AWS Well‑Architected Framework assessments.
• Engage in industry events, open‑source contributions, and technical blogging, reinforcing cloud engineering excellence within the organization.

Requirements

Technical Expertise

• 12+ years of IT experience, with at least 7+ years focused on AWS cloud engineering, architecture, and automation.
• Deep AWS expertise, including EC2, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, VPC, CloudFormation, IAM, Transit Gateway, and Route53.
• Expert in Kubernetes architecture (EKS, Helm, Daemon Sets, StatefulSets, Karpenter, external‑dns, aws‑cni).
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise with Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation.
• Proficiency in DevOps & automation tools, including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps.
• Mastery of AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, and Route53 latency‑based routing.
• Deep expertise in security and compliance frameworks (IAM, AWS KMS, AWS Secrets Manager, WAF, AWS Shield).
• Experience designing high‑scale, production‑grade automation solutions using Python, Bash, or Go.

Preferred Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (Highly Preferred); AWS Certified Security – Specialty or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA); AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional is a plus.

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Proven ability to architect and optimize large‑scale AWS environments.
• Strong mentoring skills, guiding and upskilling engineers in best practices.
• Exceptional communication skills, capable of presenting to executive stakeholders and influencing cloud adoption strategies.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across engineering, security, and operations teams.
• Passion for continuous learning and cloud innovation, staying at the forefront of AWS advancements.

Work in a Way That Works for You

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous well‑being initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long‑term goals. Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working for You

We know that your well‑being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi‑carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits.
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan.
• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time‑off Programs.
• Short‑and‑Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity.
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts.
• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice.

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision‑making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $118,300 - $219,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process.

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision‑making and achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and grow their practices. We assist corporations in better understanding their markets and preventing bribery and corruption within their supply chains. We partner with leading global associations and customers to help collect evidence against war criminals and provide tools to combat human trafficking. We endeavour to advance the rule of law across the world. Our teams are combining unparalleled legal and business information with analytics and technology to advance what’s possible for the way our customers work and to advance what’s possible in the world by strengthening the rule of law.