Principal Engineer - Cloud Engineer

Senior Technical Recruiter And Employment Manager | Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Overview

Our client's team is responsible for the technical future of the company, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family- and employee-centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

The Cloud team is responsible for providing multi-cloud infrastructure and the associated platforms, tools, and services required to onboard applications into the cloud globally. The Foundational Engineering team architects, designs, and manages the implementation and configuration of the company's cloud platforms. The Cloud Express team is responsible for development of a zero-touch automated platform that deploys cloud infrastructure for value streams. The Cloud Onboarding team reviews value streams proposals and assigns priority to onboard applications to the cloud and provides feedback and recommendations for architecture, platforms and resources. The Cloud Automation Tools team is responsible for the tools leveraged to store and deploy infrastructure as code to build resources within the company's hybrid, multi-cloud platforms. It is essential that the solutions factor in a multi cloud environment and that requirements are gathered to clearly understand fit for purpose when designing or assisting with the solution. All of these functions leverage IaC best practices for implementation and configuration to maintain a strong security posture, provide traceability, and ensure consistency.

Role

• Sets the strategic vision for multi cloud platform, aligning with organization goals. Provides leadership in guiding the overall direction of cloud technical initiatives.
• Stays up-to-date with emerging technologies and assess their applicability to the organization.
• Provides strategic insights and recommendations based on data to support decision-making at the organizational level.
• Leads and mentors a team of engineers, provides technical guidance, sharing best practices, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.
• Coaches and trains engineers on what is possible through short term PoCs.
• Fosters a collaborative environment that encourages knowledge sharing and skill development. Leads technical leadership forums, lunch and learn sessions for the rest of the engineering community in the organization.
• Focuses on business needs through a data driven approach.
• Supports Costcos architecture ecosystem by working with Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architects, System Architects, and Platform Architects to ensure security by design.
• Contributes to the design and architecture of the company's multi cloud network, ensuring it is highly available and scalable.
• Designs, develops, and optimizes cloud infrastructure for complex application architecture.
• Works on system design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging.
• Monitors the performance of cloud platforms and automation tools, provides technical leadership to drive stability and scalability of data products and reporting solutions and data / telemetry to make decisions.
• Establishes and enforces data quality standards and best practices. Implements processes for data validation, cleansing, and accuracy.
• Adheres to and drives modern software engineering practices through design reviews.
• Develops best-in-class engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable.
• Troubleshoots and optimizes automation, reliability, and monitoring for delivered products.
• Ensures testability, portability / monitoring, reliability, and maintainability; and understands when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
• Partners with engineering and development teams to create and maintain documentation for cloud platforms, CI / CD processes and onboarding application infrastructure into the Cloud.
• Implements measures to optimize performance and troubleshoot issues.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including enterprise architecture, security and compliance, engineers, platforms engineers, and IT professionals, to develop comprehensive cloud solutions.
• Enforces network security policies and procedures to safeguard against cybersecurity threats and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Works closely with the Information Security team to ensure security policies and best practices are enforced in an effective and scalable manner.
• Ensures the integrity, security, and performance of cloud products and solutions by partnering with platforms, security, networking and governance teams.
• Recommends infrastructure upgrades to support business growth and evolving technology requirements.

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We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical / dental / vision / hearing aid / pharmacy / behavioral health / employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

The company is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. The company is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and / or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to info@

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States.

Pay Range : $160,000 - $230,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

This role is required to work onsite in Issaquah, Washington

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