Principal Cloud Engineer – AWS Infrastructure & Solutions (India)

Job Description:

Principle Cloud Engineer – AWS Infrastructure & Solutions

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Principal AWS Cloud Engineer, you serve as a senior technical authority in designing, building, and optimizing secure, scalable, and compliant AWS cloud solutions. This role is deeply hands-on while also influencing enterprise architecture, operational strategy, and best practices across the organization.

The ideal candidate combines expert-level AWS technical skills with a strong understanding of healthcare compliance and operational demands, working closely with engineering, security, and product teams to deliver mission-critical platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Engineering

• Design, implement, and optimize AWS infrastructure to meet high availability, performance, and security requirements.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation, Terraform, or AWS CDK.
• Architect hybrid cloud and multi-region environments that integrate seamlessly with on-prem systems.
• Lead proof-of-concepts for emerging AWS services and guide their adoption.

Operational Excellence

• Develop and implement monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, OpenSearch, Prometheus/Grafana).
• Ensure robust disaster recovery, backup, and failover capabilities.
• Implement performance tuning and cost optimization measures across AWS workloads.

Healthcare & Compliance

• Design solutions that comply with HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and other relevant frameworks.
• Apply security-by-design principles using AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM), VPC security, KMS encryption, and private networking.
• Partner with compliance teams to support audits and certifications.

Technical Leadership (Non-Manager)

• Serve as the go-to AWS technical expert for complex engineering initiatives.
• Mentor engineers in cloud architecture, automation, and DevOps practices.
• Influence enterprise AWS strategy and standards without direct people management responsibilities.

• Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (Master’s preferred).

• 7 years in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering.
• 5 years AWS skills across core services: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudFront, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM.
• Proven experience designing and deploying mission-critical workloads in regulated industries; healthcare experience preferred.
• 5 years of experience automation experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• 5 years with CI/CD, pipelines including Observability and DevOps tooling.

In addition to the above requirements, the following are also required: ​

• Container orchestration expertise (EKS, ECS, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7).
• Experience with serverless architectures and event-driven design.
• Familiarity with AWS cost governance tools and optimization techniques.

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