Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Sonar's IT Operations team as a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer and lead the company's AWS cloud infrastructure and security. You will design, deploy, and manage secure and scalable services, lead the cloud engineering squad, and act as the AWS Identity Access Management advisor. Responsibilities include enhancing architecture, collaborating with stakeholders, ensuring testability, optimizing for scalability, participating in AWS reviews, and maintaining documentation. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of AWS experience, AWS Solutions Architect certification (Azure and GCP expertise a plus), strong architecture and software development skills, and experience with Terraform or AWS CDK. A can-do attitude, teamwork skills, and comfort with agile practices are essential. Sonar offers a dynamic culture, flexible work policy (3 days in-office, 2 days remote), and commitment to continuous learning.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with AWS implementations and automating deployments
• Prod-oriented, AWS Cloud background, and belief in having DevOps profiles working together as a tightly-knit team
• Solid experience with architecture: experience with delivering cloud-native applications, architecture modeling, and implementation on AWS
• Strong understanding of software development practices: quality, testing (unit, functional, and resilience), and CI/CD
• CompTIA Network+ certification or equivalent cloud or on-prem experience level in network concepts, implementation and operations
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or AWS CDK python library
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• With attention to detail, but also operating at scale you demonstrate analytical thinking to resolve problems
• Team player, receiving and giving feedback as well as sharing knowledge
• Can-do attitude: challenging status quo, leading and contributing to key improvements and innovations
• Motivated by both technical and functional aspects of services, you understand the value of code over presentations and see yourself as an engineer at heart
• Comfortable with agile practices and principles and to organize team work in sprints

Responsibilities

• Be the technical lead for the company’s AWS Organizations in the scope of infrastructure, network and security
• Design, deploy, and manage secure scalable and reliable services policies and standards
• Lead the extension of the cloud infrastructure network keeping it secure and ZTA compliant securing that the traffic is inspected, monitored and controlled
• Organize the cloud engineering squad's agenda, Jira project tasks and priorities aligned with the business needs
• Be the AWS Identity Access Management advisor and policy lead administrator
• Continuously and proactively enhance the architecture design and implementation, taking into account performance, disaster recovery, and costs
• Collaborate with various stakeholders (CIO, Data team, Release engineering, etc.) to make sure solutions fit into the Sonar ecosystem
• Own testability of the infrastructure (deploy, validate, tear-down)
• Take planned steps to ensure that all platforms and capabilities operate within a given region and account limits to ensure scalability
• Dedicate effort to improve resilience and scalability tests in performance environments to stay ahead of growth inhibitors
• Participate in AWS Well-Architected Reviews and Trusted Advisor findings resolution
• Document as-is and future state solutions to ensure evergreen documentation is maintained
• Document and share reusable building blocks

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Solutions Architect certification with a similar level of expertise in Azure and GCP is a big plus

Benefits

• We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely
• We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them