Cloud Principal Engineer

Work in Defining the cloud engineering operating model and role boundaries across DevOps, Cloud Ops, and R&D teams.

Build and mentor the initial cloud engineering team and hire pipeline.

Prioritize roadmap initiatives into quarterly execution plans with clear owners and milestones.

Establish platform and automation standards for infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD integration, security controls, and reliability.

Lead cross-functional programs that require coordinated cloud, platform, and application changes.

Ensure decisions are evidence-driven with transparent measurement and reporting.

5+ years in cloud/platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure leadership roles.

3+ years leading cross-functional technical programs with direct business impact.

Strong hands-on depth in at least two of the following: Kubernetes platforms, cloud infrastructure automation, cost optimization, observability, CI/CD systems.

Experience across AWS and Azure in production environments.

Proven ability to translate business goals into technical roadmap execution.

Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Configuration management and systems automation (Ansible or equivalent).

Experience evaluating or migrating monitoring stacks (for example, Datadog alternatives).

Experience with Kafka platform migrations, including Kafka-as-a-Service adoption.

Experience enabling ARM64 migration and multi-arch build/deployment practices.

Experience driving stateless architecture transitions and config externalization patterns.

Experience leading cloud transformation in multi-tenant or regulated environments.

Experience with FinOps practices and cost governance operating models.

Experience with platform migration programs (for example, KaaS, ARM, stateless modernization).

Experience hiring and developing high-performing platform teams.

Systems thinking with bias for execution.

Strong ownership and accountability.

Pragmatic decision-making under delivery constraints.

Ability to build alignment across engineering, operations, and business stakeholders.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is Negotiable. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location. The range for each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed reflect the base salary and certain positions may be offered with additional variable incentives.

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.