Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LexisNexis is a global leader in providing information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. As a Senior Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer, you will provide technical strategy and architectural leadership, guiding teams in AWS best practices and influencing multi-cloud solutions.
Responsibilities
- 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,)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Skills
- 12+ years of IT experience, with at least 7+ years focused on AWS cloud engineering, architecture, and automation
- Deep AWS expertise, including EC2, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, VPC, CloudFormation, IAM, Transit Gateway, and Route 53
- Expert in Kubernetes architecture (EKS, Helm, Daemon Sets, StatefulSets, Karpenter, external-dns, aws-cni)
- Advanced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise with Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation
- Proficiency in DevOps & automation tools, including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps
- Mastery of AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, and Route 53 latency-based routing
- Deep expertise in security and compliance frameworks (IAM, AWS KMS, AWS Secrets Manager, WAF, AWS Shield)
- Experience designing high-scale, production-grade automation solutions using Python, Bash, or Go
- Proven ability to architect and optimize large-scale AWS environments
- Strong mentoring skills, guiding and upskilling engineers in best practices
- Exceptional communication skills, capable of presenting to executive stakeholders and influencing cloud adoption strategies
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across engineering, security, and operations teams
- Passion for continuous learning and cloud innovation, staying at the forefront of AWS advancements
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (Highly Preferred)
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional is a plus
Benefits
- We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization.
- 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.
- 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
- This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.
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