Principal, Cloud Engineer

Overview

Principal Site Reliability Engineer providing technical leadership for reliability, scalability, developer velocity and security across ModMed's global AWS cloud platform.

What you'll do

• Define and execute the long-term architectural vision for the global AWS cloud ecosystem, designing high-performance, fault-tolerant, cost-optimized multi-region topologies.
• Institutionalize observability across the enterprise by architecting unified global telemetry standards using Datadog and OpenTelemetry.
• Revolutionize CI/CD and internal developer platform strategy using tools such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, ACK and CUE.
• Serve as the authority on container orchestration, microservices deployment and service mesh architectures, including Kubernetes cluster efficiency, auto-scaling and secure multi-tenancy.
• Partner with SecOps to embed automated security guardrails and compliance controls into Infrastructure-as-Code pipelines, ensuring adherence to HIPAA and SOC 2.
• Act as the premier technical escalation authority for critical cross-system infrastructure failures, leading root-cause analysis and post-mortems.
• Act as a force multiplier across engineering: direct cross-functional initiatives, publish enterprise best practices, influence technology roadmaps and mentor senior and staff-level engineers.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline with an IT focus.
• 8+ years of dedicated experience in cloud engineering or DevOps roles.
• 13–15+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Architecture or DevOps Platform Engineering, including scaling high-concurrency enterprise cloud environments.
• Deep mastery of the AWS ecosystem (including EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM and advanced networking), with experience executing scalability strategies and cloud spend optimization.
• Professional-grade expertise in production-scale Kubernetes, Datadog telemetry architectures and modular Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or Terragrunt at scale.
• Expert-level software engineering in Python, Go or Bash to build automation engines, internal CLI tools and infrastructure platforms.
• Exceptional communication skills, able to translate technical trade-offs into strategic visions for executive leadership and conduct line-by-line code and architecture reviews.
• Strong desire to apply technical expertise to modernizing healthcare infrastructure and protecting patient data integrity.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's in Engineering or MCA.
• Active AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or relevant advanced Specialty certifications (Security, Advanced Networking).
• Direct experience managing high-throughput, event-driven streaming architectures (e.g., Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis) or high-scale data warehouses (e.g., Amazon Redshift, Snowflake).
• History of contributing to open-source cloud-native projects, authoring technical white papers or speaking at industry conferences (e.g., AWS re:Invent, KubeCon).

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.