Principal Cloud Engineer
Core
Lead cloud security automation and platform engineering to secure AWS environments for NASA flagship space telescope missions.
Role type
Principal Cloud Security Automation & Systems Engineer
Builds
Secure cloud capabilities, paved road tooling, reusable modules, and automated incident response workflows for observatory missions.
Domain
Space science / Cloud Security / Platform Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Cloud security automation, Platform engineering, Kubernetes (EKS), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK), CI/CD security integration, Automated incident response, Stakeholder engagement
Preferred skills
SSO platforms (Okta/Auth0), Log management (Datadog/ELK), Agentic AI/LLM automation
Technologies
AWS, Amazon EKS, CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK, Okta, Auth0, Datadog, ELK
Responsibilities
Design and deploy secure workloads on Amazon EKS; Build platform engineering tooling for self-service secure deployment; Embed automated security testing in CI/CD pipelines; Operate automated incident response workflows; Evaluate and implement agentic AI for security tasks.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic ownership