LexisNexis · 16 hours ago
Senior Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$118K/yr - $220K/yr
12+ years expLexisNexis is a leading provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. They are seeking a Senior Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer to provide technical strategy, deep AWS expertise, and architectural leadership, focusing on enterprise-level impact and driving technical decision-making.
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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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
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
Company
LexisNexis
LexisNexis is a data analytics company that provides information solutions and law legal databases to Law and corporate businesses.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$30MKey Investors
EquivoActua Corporation
2021-06-16Corporate Round
2000-03-22Series Unknown· $30M
1994-10-05Acquired
Leadership Team
Eric Bonnet-Maes
CEO - LexisNexis Continental Europe, Middle East and Africa
Sean Fitzpatrick
CEO LexisNexis North America, UK & Ireland
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