Hybrid Senior Principal Cloud & Solutions Engineer

at Softcard (acquired by Google)

• Job title: Senior Principal Cloud & Solutions Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, EC2, Python, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Houston, United States

About the role

• Senior Principal Cloud & Solutions Engineer designing secure, scalable cloud solutions for Invesco's cloud engineering team. Influencing cloud practices across the organization as a technical leader.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and lead the development of a secure, scalable cloud foundation
• Help drive the vision and roadmap to build a foundation of self-service cloud platforms with a focus on Developer Experience
• Define reusable cloud patterns, templates, and accelerators to streamline adoption
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines to enable automated provisioning and self-service capabilities
• Define and enforce engineering standards, developing policy as code to shift left
• Act as a strategic advisor to application teams, ensuring cloud solutions are compliant, resilient, and cost-effective
• Influence cloud adoption and modernization efforts across the enterprise, including legacy-to-cloud-native transformations
• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex cloud and infrastructure challenges that have a broad impact on the business
• Evangelize cloud best practices and educate teams on cloud-native principles

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure and cloud engineering.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, including deep expertise in EKS, EC2, Lambda, IAM, S3, API Gateway.
• Proven leadership in designing and implementing global cloud solutions.
• Strong proficiency in Terraform, CI/CD tools (e.g., Bitbucket Pipelines), and Python scripting.
• Experience guiding cloud-native transformations and modernizing legacy applications.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives that highlight the strategic value of technology initiatives; able to engage and influence diverse technical and business stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of Agile and DevOps operating models.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Hybrid work schedule
• 401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution
• Health & wellbeing benefits
• Parental Leave benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan