Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

Magellan Health is a leading organization in the healthcare sector, and they are seeking a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to lead cloud transformation strategies. This role focuses on establishing cloud direction across various services while mentoring and guiding engineers in cloud engineering best practices.

Responsibilities:

• In partnership with IT leadership, lead the cloud transformation strategy — establishing and driving cloud direction across infrastructure, platforms, applications, and data services spanning IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS implementations. (25%)
• Champion secure-by-design principles across all cloud engineering efforts, owning the identification, prioritization, and remediation of infrastructure security vulnerabilities.  Coach DevOps/SecOps methodology throughout the organization, enforcing best practices for access, encryption, secrets management, and network segmentation — and bridging technical risk discussions with Legal, Compliance, and Audit teams. (25%)
• Mentor, guide, and teach engineers across IT as they solve and navigate complex problems in a changing technology landscape, elevating capabilities through design reviews, knowledge sharing, and hands-on coaching.  Serve as the primary technical focal point for internal and external stakeholders on cloud engineering tasks, providing estimates of feasibility, time, and effort while monitoring projects and proactively resolving risks. (25%)
• Ensure standards and procedures are followed during the design and implementation of cloud and information systems, defining improvements that increase reliability, security, and performance across cloud platforms.  Perform root cause analysis on complex infrastructure issues, act as liaison to business units on changing needs, and provide regular status updates to management, highlighting risks and progress. (25%)

Requirements:

• 7–10 years of infrastructure or software engineering experience, with 5+ years focused on cloud technologies, platforms, and transformation across AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Demonstrated experience leading cloud transformation strategy, including migrating enterprise workloads from traditional data center infrastructure to hybrid or fully cloud-enabled architectures
• Hands-on experience with cloud security best practices including least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management, network segmentation, and vulnerability remediation
• Experience with DevOps/SecOps methodologies and integrating security practices throughout the software development and infrastructure lifecycle
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach engineers, elevating team capabilities across a broad IT organization
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present to and influence senior executives and business leaders
• Critical thinker with demonstrated problem-solving and root cause analysis skills
• Bachelor's - Computer and Information Science
• Bachelor's - Information Technology
• AWS - Amazon Web Services Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional - EnterpriseEnterprise
• AWS - Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect - Professional - EnterpriseEnterprise