Principal Cloud Engineer
Job Location:
Allendale County, SC - USA
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Job Summary
ABOUT GREYSTAR
Greystar is a leading fully integrated global real estate platform offering expertise in property management investment management development and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing. Headquartered in Charleston South Carolina Greystar manages and operates over $300 billion of real estate in more than 265 markets globally with offices throughout North America Europe South America and the Asia-Pacific region. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States managing over one million units/beds globally. Across its platforms Greystar has nearly $79 billion of assets under management including over $35 billion of development assets and over $36.5 billion of regulatory assets under management. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 to become a provider of world-class service in the rental residential real estate business. To learn more visit .
JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY
The Principal Cloud Engineer is a senior technical leader who pairs architectural vision with hands-on engineering execution. You will design and build the reference architectures patterns and standards that support Greystars global operations then implement those designs yourself using modern cloud practices. This is not a role that stops at diagrams. This is the role that proves out patterns through working POCs then enables the platform team to operationalize and scale them. You will partner closely with the Data Digital and AI (D2AI) team where much of Greystars active cloud development happens today while keeping a broader enterprise-wide perspective. Much of that work is AI and data intensive so a core part of this role is building the cloud foundation that Greystars AI and ML workloads run on from accelerated compute and model serving to the Databricks data plane that powers them.We are looking for someone who thinks in cloud concepts rather than being tied to any single provider. The ideal candidate understands foundational principles - IAM virtual networking DNS load balancing compute and storage - and can translate those concepts fluidly across Azure AWS or any platform our growing portfolio demands. You approach technology decisions with a methodology-first mindset: evaluating trade-offs aligning infrastructure choices with business objectives and building frameworks that scale across a complex multi-entity organization.
This is an individual contributor role with a strong mentoring component. You will guide and elevate systems administrators and engineers across the team helping them grow into more strategic thinkers themselves.
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JOB DESCRIPTION
What You Will Do:
Cloud Architecture and Engineering:
Design and build reference architectures design patterns and technology standards that ensure consistency security and scalability across all environments and contribute to technology roadmaps that align cloud direction with businessobjectivesand growth plans.
Design implement and continuously improve Greystars private networking architecture including hub-and-spoke topology private endpoint strategy DNS architecture and network segmentation standards across all cloud environments.
Design and build Greystars container platform delivering reference patterns for AKS and containerized workloads that underpin near-term initiatives including MCP-based services and AI/ML model serving infrastructure.
Design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions across multi-cloud environments (Azure AWS) with an emphasis on reliability security and cost-efficiency.
Design and implement the infrastructure patterns for AI workloads and the Databricks data plane that D2AIs analytics and AI products depend on.
Enablement for Application Development Teams:
Partner closely with application development teams - including the Data Digital and AI (D2AI) team - to help them move fast and safe by providing the patterns guardrails and platform capabilities they need to ship confidently.
Build and curate paved-road solutions: reference implementationsTerraformmodules pipeline templates and starter architectures that let product teams adopt cloud services without reinventing the wheel.
Remove friction byanticipatingcommon needs - networking identity secrets deployment observability - and delivering self-service capabilities that scale across teams.
Serve as a trusted technical advisor on cloud design reviews helping development teams choose the right services and patterns for their workloads.
Infrastructure as Code and Automation:
Champion and advance Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform ensuring repeatable version-controlled and auditable infrastructure deployments.
Use Greystars AI tooling to accelerate your own engineering work fromIaCauthoring to runbooks and documentation. Model responsible high-leverage use of AI for theengineersyou mentor setting the standard for how the platform team works.
Build andmaintainenterprise-wide CI/CD pipeline standards branching strategies and release patterns thateliminateper-team reinvention and enable development teams to move quickly within a consistent well-governed framework providing reusable templates and patterns.
Reliability and Operational Excellence:
Implement andmaintainreliability standards the platform teamoperatesagainst including SLO/SLI frameworks error budgets and availability targets by workload tier.
Implement observability standards (logging conventions tracing metricsdashboardand alerting baselines) so every service is instrumented consistently rather than team by team.
Build andmaintainthe incident management framework (severity definitions escalation paths on-call structure and blameless postmortem practice) that platform engineers execute during live incidents.
Develop andmaintainproduction readiness and operational acceptancecriteriathe gate a service must satisfy before it is handed off to the platform team tooperate.
Implement andmaintainoperational lifecycle standards for patching and upgrade cadence secret and certificate rotation backup and disaster recovery and capacity planning.
Close the loop: use postmortem trends recurring toil and reliability reviews to refine the architecture and platform standards overtimeso they stay grounded in operational reality.
Platform Standards and Governance:
Build andmaintaingovernance frameworks for cloud decisions including guidelines for platformselection service adoption landing zone design and architectural review processes.
Implement and continuously improve best practices for cloud security identity network segmentation and policy guardrails across the cloud estate.
Drive cost governance practices across the cloud estate including tagging budgeting and right-sizing patterns.
Author andmaintaincomprehensive technical documentation including architecture decision records reference designs and standard operating procedures.
Prove outnew platform capabilities through working reference implementations before they are codified as enterprise standards.
Technical Leadership and Mentorship:
Mentor and coach cloud and platform engineersprovidingtechnical guidance architectural thinking code reviews and knowledge-sharing to elevate the teams capabilities.
Collaborate cross-functionally with DevOps security application and business teams to ensure cloud capabilities are aligned with organizational needs.
Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field or equivalent professional experience.
10 years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering with at least 3 years in a senior or principal-level role.
Strong conceptual mastery of cloud computing fundamentals - IAMVNets/VPCs load balancing DNS compute storage.
Deep hands-on experience with Azure private networking hub-and-spoke topology Private DNS zones private endpoints and network security controls.
Hands-on experience with Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Codetools(Bicep CloudFormation).
Proficiencywith Git-based version control and CI/CD pipeline design and management.
Experience with containerization technologies particularly Docker.
Demonstrated ability to mentor and influence engineering teams without direct management authority.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts and architectural decisions for diverse audiences.
Preferred Qualifications:
Substantial hands-on Azure experience is strongly preferred as Azure is Greystars current primary cloud platform.
Experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions; equivalent experience with GitLab CI/CD Jenkins or similar platforms is also valued.
Experience designing and implementing identity and access architecture in Azure including Entra ID PIM SCIM provisioning and workload identity federation.
Experience with Azure Policy as code including custom policy definitions initiative assignments and enforcementmodegovernance.
Scripting and automationproficiencyin PowerShell Python or Bash.
Experience supporting AI and ML workloads in the cloud: GPU and acceleratedcompute model serving and inference infrastructureMLOpsorLLMOpstooling Databricks or AI cost management.
Experience defining operational standards (SLOs observability incident management production readiness) that an operating team runs against.
Understanding of security and compliance frameworks (SOC 2 PCI CIS benchmarks) as they relate to cloud infrastructure.
Experience developing technology standards governance processes or architectural review practices for mid-to-large organizations.
Cloud certifications (e.g. Azure Solutions Architect Expert AWS Solutions ArchitectHashiCorpTerraform Associate) are a plus but notre
The salary range for this position is $160000 - $190000 USD Annnually.
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Additional Compensation:
Many factors go into determining employee pay within the posted range including business requirements prior experience current skills and geographical location.
Corporate Positions:Inaddition to the base salary this role may be eligible to participateina quarterly or annual bonus program based onindividual and company performance.
Onsite Property Positions:Inaddition to the base salary this role may be eligible to participatein weekly monthly and/or quarterly bonus programs.
Robust Benefits Offered*:
Competitive Medical Dental Vision and Disability & Lifeinsurance benefits. Low (free basic) employee Medical costs for employee-only coverage; costs discounted after 3 and 5 years of service.
Generous Paid Time off. All new hires start with 15 days of vacation 4 personal days 10 sick days and 11 paid holidays. Plus your birthday off after 1 year of service! Additional vacation accrued with tenure.
For onsite team members onsite housing discount at Greystar-managed communities are available subject to discount and unit availability.
6-Week Paid Sabbatical after 10 years of service (and every 5 years thereafter).
401(k) with Company Match up to 6% of pay after 6 months of service.
Paid Parental Leave and lifetime Fertility Benefit reimbursement up to $10000 (includes adoption or surrogacy).
Employee Assistance Program.
Critical Illness Accident HospitalIndemnity PetInsurance and Legal Plans.
Charitable giving program and benefits.
*Benefits offered for full-time employees. For Union and Prevailing Wage roles compensation and benefits may vary from the listedinformation above due to Collective Bargaining Agreements and/or local governing authority.
Greystar will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
This position may be performed remotely anywhere within the United States except the state of Alaska.
Important Notice: Greystar will never request your banking details or other sensitive personal information during the interview process. Greystar does not conduct any interviews via text or messaging and all communication will come from official Greystar email addresses (@). If you receive suspicious requests please report them immediately to
ANTICIPATED CLOSING DATE
August 31 2026This date may be subject to change due to evolving business needs.
Required Experience:
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About Company
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