AWS Platform Engineer Principal

We are looking for a talented AWS Platform Engineer Principal to join our team specializing in Systems/IT for our Corporate organization in Columbus, IN.

In this role, you will make an impact by:

• Driving automation excellence through designing and implementing scalable solutions that streamline infrastructure provisioning, reduce manual effort, and accelerate deployment cycles.
• Setting technical direction by leading the creation of system architectures, infrastructure designs, and detailed documentation that guide consistent, high-quality solution delivery.
• Ensuring secure, high-performing systems by actively participating in design, cybersecurity, and code reviews to uphold architectural standards, security principles, and performance expectations.
• Enabling seamless integration by collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure new solutions align with and enhance existing infrastructure and platforms.
• Strengthening system resilience by identifying vulnerabilities and leading enhancements that improve system stability, security posture, and overall reliability.
• Optimizing performance and availability by proactively monitoring system health, analyzing trends, and driving tuning and capacity planning initiatives across environments.
• Leading complex issue resolution by troubleshooting and resolving critical infrastructure challenges, minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity.
• Delivering strategic integrations by partnering with vendors and internal teams to plan and execute complex system integrations that support business growth and innovation.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Security & Compliance Principles: Applies standards, tools, and best practices to embed security, privacy, and compliance into the design/build/test/operate lifecycle.
• Programming Principles: Applies programming languages, frameworks, and patterns to design, write, configure, test, and maintain software/solutions/systems.
• Data Principles: Governs, models, secures, implements, and observes data flows to ensure integrity, quality, and compliance.
• Modern Development Practices: Applies modern engineering practices and tools such as Agile/DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure as code.
• Solution Design: Translates business requirements into integrated designs, architectures, patterns, and system interactions.
• System Architecture: Creates and evolves architecture system blueprints developing reusable patterns and roadmaps.
• Demonstrating Mastery: Maintains essential knowledge and proficiency in relevant domains, tools, technologies, methodologies, or frameworks.
• Strategic and Innovative Thinking: Evaluates business and technology trends, anticipates future needs, develops creative approaches, and frames innovations.
• Technical Passion & Drive: Models curiosity and excitement for technology by self-initiating continuous development and experimenting with emerging technologies.
• Driving Effective Outcomes: Takes ownership, acts with urgency, and initiates action to turn goals into clear plans, decisions, guardrails, and cadences.
• Engaging with Impact: Communicates with clarity and purpose to align stakeholders, foster collaboration, build trust, and influence coordinated action.
• Values Differences: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
• Ensuring Customer Success: Embraces a customer-first mindset to deliver outcomes by linking customer needs and business priorities to aligned solutions.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:

• College, university, or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or related subject, or relevant equivalent experience required.
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience:

• Significant relevant experience required, 5-7 years of experience.

Core Skills & Expertise:

• AWS Services: EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudFormation, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
• Networking & Security: VPC design, Security Groups, NACLs, Route 53, Transit Gateway, IAM policies, KMS, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, Security Hub
• Monitoring & Logging: CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms), X-Ray, ELK Stack, Prometheus + Grafana
• Automation & Scripting: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CDK, Python, AWS CLI & SDKs (Boto3)
• CI/CD Pipelines: GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitLab CI
• Containers & Orchestration: Fundamentals of ECS, Fargate, EKS, Docker, Helm
• Cost Optimization: AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, tagging governance
• DevSecOps & Compliance: Well-Architected Framework, CIS Benchmarks, SCPs, security best practices
• Collaboration & Documentation: Agile methodologies, Jira, Confluence, architectural diagrams, runbooks