Principal Cloud Engineer

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Principal Cloud Engineer architecting, building, and optimizing AWS solutions at AbbVie. Leading DevOps practices and mentoring team members in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities:

  • architect, build, and optimize enterprise-scale AWS solutions
  • document technical decisions for clarity and reuse
  • lead development of AWS-based applications using Lambda, API Gateway, and ECS
  • build and automate infrastructure as code (IaC)
  • design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines
  • implement DevOps best practices using AWS
  • deploy and operate containerized and serverless workloads
  • integrate and leverage AI tools to automate operational tasks
  • develop and maintain AI-driven runbooks and workflows for continuous improvement
  • monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance, reliability, and cost
  • implement and enforce robust security and compliance
  • mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree with 8 years experience; Master's Degree with 7 years experience; PhD with 3 years experience
  • Experience in application program development
  • AWS Core: EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, EventBridge, EKS/ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, Control Tower, Identity Center, CloudWatch
  • Landing Zone & Governance: Secure Landing Zone, AWS Organizations, multi-account guardrails, SCPs
  • IaC & Automation: CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, Ansible; GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodePipeline; Git, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Docker
  • DevOps & SDLC: Trunk-based development, automated testing, GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux), policy-as-code, artifact management
  • AI & Observability: Amazon Q, Claude, Datadog AI, AWS AI/ML services; AI-powered monitoring/automation, anomaly detection, predictive scaling, automated triage
  • Security & Compliance: IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, Security Hub, AWS WAF; alignment to GxP, HIPAA, GDPR, 21 CFR Part 11; Tenable/WizIO integrations
  • Monitoring & Mgmt: CloudWatch, ServiceNow, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK; optional Splunk, SolarWinds, Dynatrace
  • Networking: VPC design, subnetting, NAT/Transit Gateway, VPN/Direct Connect, routing, load balancing
  • Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, Fargate
  • Communication & Leadership: Clear written/verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences; effective cross-functional collaboration

Benefits:

  • paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
  • medical/dental/vision insurance
  • 401(k) to eligible employees
  • eligible to participate in short-term incentive programs