We have urgent need for a PRINCIPAL ENGINEER- CLOUD for FULL TIME role with a top ecommerce client. Location can be Seattle , WA or Mountain View, CA. This role offers basic salary + Stock options + Benefits. As a Principal Systems Engineer for our Cloud platform team, this role will focus on leveraging Cloud Platform infrastructure, services and processes at its best to help increase infrastructure & system Efficiencies, Productivity, scalability and system quality improvements at 10X scale. This role will be responsible for diving deep into business problems, understanding current customer pain points, system domain, current Platform limitations (if exists) and then work closely with engineering teams / leaders to design and architect new system / services leveraging cloud infrastructure that can scale 10X better, is reliable, and is highly available. The includes providing system architecture artifacts, accountability on cloud infrastructure choices that can perform and scale at 10X level but are still efficient, guidance on using right machine type, network designs etc . You will be part of a Global team working from different locations but still works as a central connected unit. This role will possess a strong blend of technical, architect, hands on with leadership skills blended with result-oriented culture to deliver to needs of business at speed of light. The roles require strong Linux systems administration/engineering, networking, security & cloud environments skills. Have the ability to mix different AWS services to migrate existing services to the Cloud or improve current deployments. You will focus on Infrastructure automation, security and availability through fault-tolerant enterprise solutions. Do you have a strong background on system design and architecture required for defining a design for Cloud Platform / system? Are you an execution-oriented with attention to detail on driving platform enhancements and improvements across the technology infrastructure stack? Do you have the passion of building Platform / systems used companywide leveraging cloud infrastructure efficiently as a crucial enabling technology in today's business environment? Key Responsibilities
Serve as a technical architect on Cloud infrastructure layer.
100% accountable for quality of system architecture and design of system / Platform.
Solves complex technical problems in our AWS environment plus improves Operations Excellence
Strong ability to deep dive to understand current systems Cloud architecture to provide strategic partnership and improvements on network usage, role management, CDN, domains etc.
Analyze complex distributed production deployments and recommend ways to optimize performance and/or automate processes by managing continuous integration servers, utilizing monitoring and testing tools
Identify opportunities to make disruptive improvements in cloud infrastructure usage, operations and services with high degree of systematic automation.
Possess expert knowledge in performance (millisecond latencies), scalability, availability (99.99% uptime), enterprise architecture best practices
Strong technical analytical & design capability to understand Common & shared platforms, web, & services API with underlying data to provide appropriate network, infrastructure recommendations
Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capabilities, and attention to detail
Strong cultural change management experience
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
12+ years of system engineering or site reliability experience
5+ years of experience leading system design, architecture leveraging AWS services
5+ years of demonstrable building and operating infrastructure as code. Comfortable with many flavors of Linux
5+ year's of experience in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems in the cloud.
Excellent cross-group collaboration, outstanding verbal and written communication.
Preferred
AWS Certification for SysOps on AWS, Developing on AWS, and/or AWS Architect
3+ years of hands-on experience as a Principal-level system Engineer
Excellent cross-group collaboration and communication skills
