Centric Software
Cloud Principal Engineer
Campbell, CA · Principal · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGitAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformAnsibleCI/CDLinuxDatadogDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringKafkaCybersecurityProduct ManagementLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- Our story is one of rapid growth, bold ideas and extraordinary opportunities.
- Why This Role Exists Our current environment is operational but fragmented across deployment patterns and cloud operations workflows.
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is Negotiable.
Responsibilities
- Build and mentor the initial cloud engineering team and hire pipeline.
- Lead cross-functional programs that require coordinated cloud, platform, and application changes.
- We equip retail, fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and consumer goods brands with pioneering best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.
- Our technology powers brands to streamline processes, drive efficiency and operate with confidence in an ever-changing market.
- Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives from audit to remediation execution.
- Lead platform direction for managed Kubernetes in a multi-cloud operating model.
- Lead migration programs such as Kafka to Kafka-as-a-Service and ARM adoption.
- Partner with application teams to enable stateless architecture transitions.
- We are building a new Cloud Engineering function to modernize our platform, improve infrastructure economics, and increase delivery reliability across AWS, Azure, and limited GCP workloads.
- The Cloud Principal Engineer will work in define the cloud strategy and execution model, build the initial team, and deliver measurable business outcomes across cost optimization, platform standardization, observability modernization, and application modernization.
Requirements
- 5+ years in cloud/platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure leadership roles.
- 3+ years leading cross-functional technical programs with direct business impact.
- Experience across AWS and Azure in production environments.
- Proven ability to translate business goals into technical roadmap execution.
Nice to have
- 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).
- Leadership Competencies
- Systems thinking with bias for execution.
- Strong ownership and accountability.
- Pragmatic decision-making under delivery constraints.
Skills
- Managed Kubernetes platforms: EKS and/or AKS architecture and operations.
- Infrastructure as Code: strong hands-on depth in Terraform or OpenTofu or Pulumi.
- Cloud automation and scripting: Python and/or TypeScript for workflow and operations automation.
- CI/CD implementation: Git-based pipelines, environment promotion, release controls, rollback patterns.
- Cost optimization engineering: rightsizing, idle resource remediation, schedule automation, and governance controls.
- Preferred Technical Skills
- 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.
- Cloud Principal Engineer
Compensation
- Compensation: Negotiable
Company info
- We're here to challenge the status quo-and we're looking for brilliant people who want to do the same.
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