Remote Position
[Remote] Lead / Principal Cloud Engineer
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Motion Recruitment is seeking a Lead / Principal Cloud Engineer for an enterprise cloud team. The role provides hands-on technical leadership across AWS infrastructure engineering, automation, and SRE-style operations, with a focus on security, reliability, observability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership within an enterprise cloud engineering team
- Design, develop, maintain, and troubleshoot AWS infrastructure and CloudFormation templates
- Provision cloud accounts and manage access controls, permission sets, policies, and trust relationships
- Automate infrastructure administration, server management, and patching through AWS SSM
- Maintain and update scripts to address runtime changes, including Python deprecation cycles
- Administer and troubleshoot Windows and Linux servers and cloud networking
- Support centralized backups, disaster recovery implementation, and recovery readiness
- Improve monitoring and observability, preferably using Dynatrace
- Monitor cloud spending and implement cost optimization improvements
- Perform SRE-style work alongside cloud engineering to improve reliability and operational efficiency
Skills
- Lead- or Principal-level AWS cloud engineering experience with strong hands-on design, development, implementation, and operational support capabilities
- Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash/shell
- Experience managing AWS IAM permission sets, policies, trust relationships, and service control policies (SCPs)
- Strong Windows and Linux server administration and troubleshooting skills
- Experience using AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for automation, server management, and patch management
- Experience implementing and supporting centralized AWS backups
- Strong cloud networking knowledge and troubleshooting capabilities
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience developing and maintaining AWS CloudFormation templates
- Experience with observability technologies
- Familiarity with AI technologies
- Experience with cloud cost management and optimization
- Experience implementing and supporting disaster recovery
- Preferably Dynatrace
- Experience with GCP or Azure
- Development experience with .NET or Java
- API management experience with Gravitee, Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft, or similar platforms
- Terraform experience
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines
- Experience supporting Microsoft SQL Server or PostgreSQL
- Kubernetes experience
- AWS certifications preferred
Benefits
- Fully remote — must support Eastern Time hours
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