# Principal Engineer Cloud Automation and Standards

**Company**: Syneos Health
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Syneos Health is seeking a Principal Engineer Cloud Automation and Standards to provide technical leadership for delivering standardized, compliant, and scalable infrastructure foundations through automation.

**Job Summary** The Principal Engineer will own infrastructure standards and configurations, base images, capacity and quota management, lifecycle and patching execution, and integration with foundational services.

**Core Responsibilities**

- Own and evolve standardized infrastructure foundation patterns, configurations, and base images for Windows and Linux platforms.

- Build and operate an automation-first provisioning model, ensuring all consumption flows through approved patterns and engineering-defined pipelines.

- Define and enforce infrastructure-as-code standards, modules, and guardrails to enable repeatable, compliant deployments at scale.

- Design and run an “image factory” capability, including automated build, validation, hardening, versioning, and publishing of golden images.

- Lead patching, lifecycle, and baseline compliance for foundational infrastructure services, with measurable SLAs/SLOs and audit-ready evidence.

- Own capacity management and cloud-native quota modeling to ensure predictable supply.

- Engineer and maintain network and name services integration, including DNS and Infoblox.

- Integrate and operate storage foundations, including standard configurations, access patterns, and lifecycle controls.

- Implement identity integration and access patterns that align with enterprise security requirements and platform standards.

- Establish controls to eliminate manual variance.

- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across compute, network, storage, and identity.

**Additional Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- Senior-level experience in infrastructure engineering or solution architecture, with strong emphasis on standardized IaaS foundations and automation in Azure, GCP, AWS, and OCI.

- Strong Windows and Linux administration skills.

- Demonstrated expertise with core infrastructure services: networking, SSL, DNS, and Infoblox.

- Experience with enterprise storage platforms and standardized storage/access patterns.

- Proven ability to integrate identity and access patterns with enterprise directory and security standards.

- Hands-on experience building automation and IaC standards.

- Experience implementing image factory pipelines and controls that prevent manual variance/drift in builds.

- Strong operational rigor: incident/problem management, root-cause analysis, documentation, and measurable service outcomes.

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud Engineering
- Infrastructure Automation
- Azure
- GCP
- AWS
- OCI
- Windows Administration
- Linux Administration
- Networking
- SSL
- DNS
- Infoblox
- Enterprise Storage
- Identity Integration

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