Principal Cloud Engineer

POSITION SUMMARY

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

What You Will Do

Strategic Leadership & Vision

• Set technical direction for cloud platform and enablement aligning with business and IT strategy.
• Develop and evangelize enterprise cloud standards guardrails and best practices.
• Lead cross-functional architecture reviews and technology selection processes. Digest understand and aide in improving and implementing the enterprise cloud strategy reference architectures and technology roadmaps.
• Sponsor and guide major transformation initiatives (e.g. migration modernization automation at scale).

Technical Excellence & Innovation

• Oversee design and implementation of complex scalable and secure cloud solutions.
• Drive adoption of automation Infrastructure as Code and modern DevOps/GitOps workflows.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and guide proof-of-concept initiatives.
• Lead adoption of advanced cloud-native patterns (e.g. GitOps SRE FinOps Zero Trust) across all platform teams.

Reliability Security & Cost Governance

• Champion SRE and FinOps practices; set organizational SLOs and cost optimization targets.
• Ensure robust security compliance and disaster recovery strategies are embedded in all solutions.
• Establish and track organizational SLOs for reliability security and cost optimization.
• Lead incident response for critical events and oversee post-mortem analysis.

Mentorship & Talent Development

• Mentor architects senior engineers and high-potential talent; foster a culture of learning and innovation.
• Develop and deliver training programs workshops and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Support career development and succession planning within the cloud engineering organization.
• Build and nurture a high-performing inclusive cloud engineering culture through mentorship and coaching.

Executive & Stakeholder Engagement

• Communicate technical vision and strategy to executive leadership and business stakeholders.
• Influence investment decisions risk management and compliance initiatives.
• Represent the cloud engineering function in external forums industry groups and vendor engagements.

Primary Tools & Technologies

• Cloud: Azure GCP AWS; on-prem virtualization/storage (VMware SAN/NAS)
• IaC/Config: Terraform Bicep Ansible/Chef/Puppet; Packer
• CI/CD & SCM: Azure DevOps GitHub Cloud Build Git
• Containers: Docker Kubernetes (AKS/GKE/EKS) Service Mesh
• Observability: Azure Monitor GCP Cloud Monitoring/Logging Prometheus/Grafana Elastic
• Security: Entra ID/Azure AD GCP IAM Key Vault/Secret Manager KMS Azure Policy/Org Policy/OPA

Additional Job Responsibilities:

• Live our values of High Performance Caring Relationships Strategic Foresight and Entrepreneurial Spirit
• Find A Better Way by championing continuous improvement and quality control efforts to identify opportunities to innovate and improve efficiency accuracy and standardization
• Continuously learn and develop self professionally
• Support corporate efforts for safety government compliance and all other company policies & procedures
• Perform other related duties as required and assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

• Progressive IT experience with 10 years experience with public cloud platforms such as Azure and/or GCP. Additionally demonstrated cloud architecture/engineering leadership.

• Proven track record of leading large-scale cloud transformation initiatives in hybrid/multi-cloud environments (Azure GCP on-prem).

• Deep expertise in cloud architecture automation (Terraform Bicep) CI/CD SRE and security.

• Demonstrated leadership mentorship and organizational influence.

• Exceptional communication stakeholder management and executive presence.

Preferred:

• Advanced certifications: Azure Solutions Architect Expert Google Professional Cloud Architect AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional CKA/CKAD HashiCorp Terraform Associate.

• Experience with enterprise-scale migrations modernization and cloud financial management (FinOps).

• Background in compliance frameworks (SOC2 ISO HIPAA etc.) and policy-as-code.

• Published thought leadership (whitepapers conference presentations patents etc.).

DIVISION:

U.S. Venture requires that a team member have and maintain authorization to work in the country in which the role is general U.S. Venture does not sponsor candidates for nonimmigrant visas or permanent residencyunless based on business need.

U.S. Venture will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment the absence of an executed recruitment Master Service Agreement there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement U.S. Venture shall reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes including those submitted to hiring managers shall be deemed the property of U.S. Venture.

U.S. Venture Inc. is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender gender identity or expression marital status age national origin disability veteran status genetic information or other protected characteristic. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability you may call Human Resources at .