Senior Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer

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 SOC 2, 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:

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 know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.

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