Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Aimpoint Digital, a fully remote data engineering consultancy, as a Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. You will serve as a trusted advisor to clients, leading multi-disciplinary teams to solve complex cloud infrastructure challenges. Responsibilities include managing high-priority accounts, developing commercial offerings, designing cloud architectures, and ensuring best-in-class security and governance. You will be instrumental in building a repeatable services and delivery framework for cloud infrastructure consulting services. This role requires extensive experience in AWS and other cloud platforms, along with strong communication and stakeholder management skills. The position offers full-time, remote work within the US, with an option for Atlanta-based employees to work in the Sandy Springs, GA headquarters.

Requirements

• Degree-educated in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience managing stakeholders and collaborating with customers
• Experience scoping cloud infrastructure cases, developing proposals, and presenting to key stakeholders
• Experience building and maintaining cloud architecture at scale; primarily in AWS
• Demonstrated administrative experience to guide best-in-class security architecture
• Demonstrated experience designing resource monitoring processes (e.g. cost, performance)
• Experience working with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Google BigQuery, AWS Redshift, Microsoft Synapse)
• Experience working with modern Data + AI platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, SageMaker)
• Experience with cloud security and governance principles
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Working understanding of relational databases, query languages and data modeling practices
• 7+ years designing, implementing and maintaining cloud architectures (primarily AWS, others a plus)
• 5+ years building data pipelines in production and ability to work across structured, semi-structured and unstructured data
• 3+ years writing clean, maintainable, and robust code in Python, Scala, Java, or similar coding languages

Responsibilities

• Become a trusted advisor working together with our clients, from data owners and analytic users to C-level executives
• Engage and lead multi-disciplinary teams to solve complex use-cases across a variety of industries
• Manage high-priority accounts that can range from global leaders to emerging disruptors within our target verticals as they look to modernize their cloud Infrastructure environments, develop repeatable deployment frameworks, and operationalize their cloud environment for the application of artificial intelligence
• Help establish and expand commercial offerings within our priority cloud data platform partnerships (namely AWS)
• Assess existing cloud infrastructure and business processes and advise on best-in-class modern solutions
• Design the cloud architecture, building data ingestion and storage protocols, and ensuring best-in-class integration with modern data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks)
• Work with common AWS infrastructure stack like Kinesis, IoT Core, Glue, Kafka, SageMaker, Redshift and ensure the environment adheres to best-in-class security, governance and monitoring principles (e.g. AWS IAM, Artifact, CloudWatch, CloudTrail)
• Be joining at the ground level for building a repeatable services and delivery frameworks for cloud infrastructure consulting services
• Work client accounts, run engagements and take part in the overall development of this discipline and the people within it

Preferred Qualifications

Expertise in software engineering concepts and best practices and/or DevOps is desirable

Benefits

• Full-time, remote work within the US
• Opportunity to work in our headquarters in Sandy Springs, GA