Principal Cloud Engineer (AWS)

Location: Hybrid in Rockville, MD, United States; the role is performed in a traditional office environment or hybrid model.

Annual base salary: $131,600–$205,625, with potential discretionary or non-discretionary bonus.

Company

hirify.global develops and operates solutions spanning manufacturing, commercial, CRO, and SaaS business segments in a regulated life-sciences environment.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and develop Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams; set technical direction, standards, runbooks, goals, and development practices.
• Architect, build, and operate a secure, highly available, scalable, and recoverable AWS multi-account environment using AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and landing-zone architecture.
• Remain hands-on with production Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, incident debugging, cluster and database performance, and platform code.
• Own infrastructure-as-code, container, compute, networking, developer-platform, and CI/CD capabilities across ECS, EKS/Kubernetes, EC2, Lambda, VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, and related services.
• Lead cloud security, SRE, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and disaster-recovery testing in partnership with Cybersecurity and engineering stakeholders.
• Guide cloud-native solution design, application onboarding, migrations, vendor architecture, platform roadmaps, budgeting, validation, audits, and regulatory assessments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. A master’s degree is preferred.
• At least 10 years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps, including at least 7 years of hands-on AWS engineering.
• At least 3 years of people-leadership experience managing engineers or formal technical leads, setting goals, conducting performance reviews, and developing team capability.
• Hands-on AWS experience across EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, VPC, IAM, KMS, CloudFront, API Gateway, Route 53, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or AWS CDK at scale, including reusable modules, state management, and CI-integrated workflows.
• Deep experience operating containerized workloads on Amazon ECS and/or Amazon EKS/Kubernetes, including cluster lifecycle, autoscaling, ingress, service mesh, and Helm, ArgoCD, or comparable tooling.
• Experience in regulated environments such as FDA 21 CFR Part 11, GxP, ISO 13485, ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, or comparable frameworks, including validation, audit, or assessment support.
• Strong knowledge of AWS networking, cloud security engineering, IAM, KMS, secrets management, GuardDuty, Security Hub, AWS Config, vulnerability management, SIEM integration, hybrid-cloud connectivity, observability, SRE, FinOps, and disaster recovery.
• Strong scripting and programming proficiency in Python and Bash, plus working proficiency in Go, Java, TypeScript, or another general-purpose language; strong communication, critical-thinking, judgment, collaboration, mentoring, and self-management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in life sciences, medical device, pharmaceutical, healthcare, or another regulated industry.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional certification.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification.
• Master’s degree in a related discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid or traditional office work environment in Rockville, Maryland.
• Medical, dental, vision, prescription, flexible spending, disability, life, and accidental death and dismemberment coverage.
• 401(k) plan with company matching, paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, and parental leave.
• Employee assistance program, fitness club contribution, pet insurance, identity theft protection, home and auto insurance discounts, and optional supplemental life insurance.
• Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employment environment; E-Verify is used to validate work eligibility.