Senior Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer

LexisNexis is a global leader in legal and professional information services, and they are seeking a Senior Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer to provide technical strategy and architectural leadership. The role focuses on optimizing AWS cloud environments and mentoring teams in multi-cloud best practices.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (Highly Preferred)
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional is a plus