Principal Consultant, Cloud & Platform Engineering (AWS Focus)

Turnberry Solutions is seeking a Principal Consultant who will act as a senior technical leader to design and deliver modern cloud solutions with a focus on AWS. This role involves client advisory, pre-sales support, and oversight of solution architecture, ensuring that solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a senior technical advisor to client stakeholders, including engineering leaders, architects, and executives
• Lead discussions around cloud strategy, platform design, and modernization approaches
• Help clients define realistic roadmaps that balance business goals, security, cost, and operational maturity
• Translate business problems into clear technical solutions that teams can execute
• Partner with the sales team during pre-sales activities to support opportunity development
• Participate in client discovery calls, technical deep dives, and solutioning sessions
• Help define scope, architecture approach, assumptions, and risks during proposal development
• Review and contribute to statements of work, ensuring technical accuracy and feasibility
• Act as a trusted technical voice in early client conversations to build credibility and trust
• Design and review enterprise-grade AWS architectures, including networking, identity, security, compute, and data services
• Provide architectural guidance for clients operating in multi-cloud or hybrid environments
• Set technical direction and guardrails for delivery teams across engagements
• Ensure solutions align with AWS best practices, security standards, and client constraints
• Guide clients in adopting infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and modern CI/CD practices
• Advise on observability, reliability, and operational readiness, including logging, monitoring, and incident response
• Help organization move from project-based delivery toward sustainable platform and product models
• Mentor architects and senior engineers across projects
• Serve as an escalation point for complex technical decisions
• Contribute to internal reference architectures, standards, and accelerators
• Support internal capability growth and consistency across cloud engagements

Requirements:

• 10 or more years of experience in cloud architecture, platform engineering, or enterprise systems
• Strong background delivering consulting or professional services engagements
• Experience working directly with client leaders and technical decision-makers
• Comfortable balancing hands-on technical depth with strategic advisory responsibilities
• AWS expertise
• Deep experience designing and operating solutions on AWS in production environments
• Strong understanding of services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route 53, RDS, DynamoDB, and S3
• Experience designing for security, high availability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization
• Multi-Cloud experience
• Working knowledge of Azure and or GCP
• Ability to compare cloud services, patterns, and tradeoffs across providers
• Experience supporting hybrid or multi-cloud architectures, even if AWS is the primary platform
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
• Comfortable presenting to clients and facilitating technical discussions
• Pragmatic mindset that balances ideal architecture with real-world constraints
• Collaborative, calm under pressure, and trusted by both clients and internal teams
• AWS certifications preferred, especially Solutions Architect Professional