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.