Principal Engineer, Cloud Strategy Lead

Responsibilities Set and evolve the multi-year technical strategy for cloud tooling, IaC, and developer experience across all five CCOE teams (Foundations, Platforms, Containers, Support, Delivery) and the five Foundations pods (Security & Governance, FinOps, Functional Design Engineering & Strategy, Network Engineering, Monitoring). Define and govern Terraform code architecture standards: module library curation, versioning, deprecation, contribution patterns, and module quality gates. Architect and operate the self-service infrastructure vending platform, including Account Factory for Terraform (AFT), Service Catalog, golden paths, and Internal Developer Platform (Backstage-class) integration. Establish enterprise standards for IaC quality: pre‑commit, policy‑as‑code (Sentinel / OPA), security and compliance scanning, drift detection, and automated remediation. Act as the primary technical liaison between CCOE and Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, and Application Engineering. Drive engineering excellence across CCOE: code review standards, pairing culture, on‑call quality, post‑incident review discipline, and continuous improvement of the developer experience. Embed agentic AI capabilities into the team's engineering practice (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Bedrock, MCP servers, agentic IaC and review workflows) and into the platform's self‑service experience for internal customers. Drive the technical strategy for embedding agentic AI capabilities into the self‑service platform: agentic IaC generation, automated PR review, MCP‑backed agents for internal data, and conversational interfaces that let internal customers self‑serve common requests. Operate as a senior individual contributor with dotted‑line technical leadership to all five CCOE teams and the five Foundations pods — leading cloud strategy and technical architecture across the organization. Mentor and uplift senior engineers, AVPs, and VPs across CCOE through code review, design partnership, technical pairing, architecture guidance, and certification‑path technical advice per the CCOE certification matrix — acting as a force multiplier without direct reports. Personally participate in 24x7 on‑call rotations as senior incident commander and cross‑CCOE technical escalation point. Requirements 10+ years of progressive technical experience including 5+ years in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering leadership. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent work experience). 5+ years of hands‑on production AWS at scale in a multi‑account landing zone, with 4+ years of authoring production Terraform in a private module ecosystem delivered through Terraform Cloud and GitHub Actions. 5+ years experience operating as a senior individual contributor (Principal Engineer or equivalent), influencing technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority — including hiring‑loop technical interviewing, architecture review participation, and technical mentorship of staff and senior engineers. Experience leading and personally participating in 24x7 production on‑call rotations in a fast‑paced, security‑conscious, regulated environment (financial services strongly preferred). Hard Skills cloud tooling Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform AWS GitHub Actions policy-as-code security scanning drift detection automated remediation agentic AI Soft Skills technical leadership mentorship collaboration influence without authority continuous improvement code review design partnership technical pairing incident management communication Certifications & Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Bachelor's degree in Engineering CCOE certification matrix #J-18808-Ljbffr Jobtailor