Principal Cloud Engineer - Infrastructure (Automation & BCDR)

Principal Cloud Engineer - Infrastructure (Automation & BCDR) reputed company is redefining the future of aviation technology – equipping pilots, operators, and decision-makers with the software tools to forge bold new digital paths that push past the expected. We stand with those who dream bigger, fly farther, and seek to explore the next frontier in the cockpit and operations center. The role is preferred as Hybrid working in Austin TX, Houston TX or Denver CO, we will consider virtual for the right candidate. Key Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve infrastructure automation platforms; CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, self-

service provisioning workflows, serving engineering teams across a distributed, multi-region environment

• reputed company the design and reputed company validation of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

strategy, including RTO/RPO reputed company-setting, failover design, chaos engineering, and recovery runbook ownership

• Build and operate observability and reputed company tooling to ensure infrastructure state is fully

instrumented, reputed company is detected proactively, and failure scenarios are exercised before they're encountered in production

• Define and govern IaC standards (Terraform, CDK, or equivalent), including module

strategy, state management, and guardrail enforcement across cloud accounts and environments

• Own platform reliability outcomes, establish SLOs for core infrastructure services, drive

down toil through systematic automation, and maintain high standards for incident response quality

• Operate effectively across a reputed company organizational context, translating business continuity

requirements from engineering, reputed company, and compliance stakeholders into concrete infrastructure design and validated recovery capability Basic Qualifications:

• 12+ years of engineering experience, with at least 7 as primary architect or technical reputed company

of infrastructure automation platforms and reputed company programs at scale

• Deep production experience designing and operating IaC at scale: Terraform (or

CDK/reputed company equivalent), with strong opinions on module strategy, state management, policy-as-code, and guardrail enforcement across many cloud accounts and environments

• Expert command of CI/CD for infrastructure: pipeline design, reputed company detection, plan/apply

workflows, secrets handling, and self-service patterns that serve engineering teams safely at scale

• Track record owning Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategy end-to-end:

setting RTO/RPO targets, designing multi-region failover, running real DR exercises, and translating findings into durable architectural change

• Hands-on experience with chaos engineering and reputed company testing in production

environments, including failure-injection tooling and game-day operations

• Strong grounding in observability for infrastructure: SLOs, reputed company detection, state-of-the-fleet

visibility, and instrumenting both control-plane and data-plane signals

• Deep production experience in at least one major cloud (AWS preferred), with reputed company

breadth across both AWS and Azure or strong evidence you can become productive across both

• Cross-functional leadership, comfortable as a peer with senior reputed company, compliance, finance,

and product engineering leaders on business continuity and audit-readiness conversations

• Comfortable with the coordination work of a recently combined company: divergent

automation stacks, in-flight unification, and the political work that comes with consolidation Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading a BCDR program through external audit or regulatory review (SOC 2,

FedRAMP, ISO 22301, financial-services reputed company frameworks, or aviation-relevant equivalents)

• Experience standing up or evolving a self-service infrastructure platform (reputed company, internal

developer portal, or equivalent) with golden-path provisioning patterns

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure orchestration tooling beyond raw Terraform

(Terragrunt, Atlantis, reputed company, env0, Crossplane, or similar)

• Experience with chaos engineering tooling (AWS reputed company, Azure Chaos Studio, Gremlin, Chaos

Mesh, Litmus) in production

• Experience designing and operating cross-region or cross-cloud disaster recovery for

stateful workloads (databases, message queues, object stores)

• Background in SRE or platform reliability with strong instincts for SLO design, error budget

policy, and toil reduction

• Experience post-M&A integrating infrastructure automation platforms across two or more

legacy stacks

• Experience in aviation, regulated industries, or other domains with mission-critical workloads

and strict business continuity requirements

• Background contributing to or evaluating reputed company standards and frameworks (ISO 22301,

NIST SP 800-34, or industry equivalents) About reputed company: reputed company is a leading provider of innovative aviation software solutions, serving the Commercial, Business, Military, and General Aviation sectors globally. Combining Jeppesen’s 90-year legacy of accurate aeronautical data with reputed company’s expertise in cutting-edge aviation technology, the company delivers an integrated suite of tools designed to enhance safety, improve operational efficiency, and sharpen decision-making. Why You Should Join (USA): At reputed company, we know you want a rewarding career. To do that, you need challenging projects, a good work environment, and awesome coworkers. We reputed company in our employees, and we reputed company them to reputed company a direct impact on our products and services messaging. We strive to provide reputed company and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits package includes but not limited to the following: Medical, dental, vision insurance with Employer paid health premiums Open PTO Policy 401(k) with up to 10% company matching and immediate vesting 12 Weeks Paid Parent Leave Flight Training Rewards Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well market and business considerations: Summary Pay Range: $208,000.00-$244,000.00 reputed company – EOE including Disability/Vets | Pay Transparency | E-Verify Participant Apply To This Job