Principal Engineer I - AWS Cloud Engineer

This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
Are you ready to drive engineering activities that will take Spectrum's telecommunications and signal processing systems to new heights? As a Principal Engineer I - AWS Cloud, you will collaborate with technical operations staff on system design and configuration, while guiding design teams and advising team leaders to ensure cutting-edge solutions and seamless integration. In this impactful role, you will be at the forefront of technological innovation, maintaining and enhancing critical hardware and software.
How You'll Make an Impact

• Provides experts judgement and analysis of the problem statement and implementation details for resolving.
• Lead or participate in system engineering projects, ensuring adherence to project timelines, and quality standards.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering knowledge transfer and skill development.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams, such as software developers, network engineers, and database administrators, to ensure project success.
• Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business needs.
• Responsible for reviewing architecture, design application deployment design and provide recommendation for improvements.
• Ensure the scalability, reliability, and maintainability of complex system architectures.
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies and trends to ensure the organization's systems remain competitive and aligned with business goals.
• Identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, and the adoption of new technologies or methodologies.
• Ability to work independently and support junior engineers in the team.
• Provides recommendation on design, scaling and infra needs for improving resilience and reliability.
• Collaborate with principle on upcoming proposal and support improvements planned.
• Have in-depth knowledge on CICD pipeline and build Infrastructure pipelines.
• Proposes initial technical implementation which supports architecture challenges that solve scaling and performance problems.
• Possess proficient knowledge on services business functionalities, dependencies, configuration.
• Implement and maintain security measures, such as access controls and vulnerability management processes.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in system engineering.
• Provide engineering technical support and guidance to regional personnel and ensure all technical integration, changes, standards and documentation are met
• Design, implement, monitor, enhance and troubleshoot systems in assigned areas
• Analyze and revise existing system logic difficulties and documentation as necessary
• Test and review system designs
• Mentor and guide the work of technical staff
• Review work plans and design and advise on improvements
• Adhere to industry specific local, state, and federal regulations, as applicable
• Know, understand and follow company policy
• Performs other duties as requested by manager.

Working Conditions : Office environment
What You'll Bring to Spectrum
Required Qualifications
Education

• Master's or bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field or related work experience

Experience

• Engineering work experience - 5-10 years
• Project management work experience - 5-10 years

Skills

• Expert Knowledge in AWS services
• Expertise in Kubernetes and networking
• Strong database knowledge pertaining to Aurora, Document DB, dynamodb, Cassandra and MongoDB
• Intermediate knowledge on Lambda, SQS, SNS, Kafka.
• Knowledge on monitoring tools like Data Dog, Splunk and Kibana and build complex queries to support troubleshooting
• Strong knowledge on common LINUX operating systems and Python scripting
• Expert knowledge and use of development / automation tools, application frameworks and testing / troubleshooting tools (some examples are Perl, Ruby, Python, Shell, BASH, traceroute, top, iostat, netstat, tcpdump, vmstat, ps, curl, etc)
• Basic knowledge in network design, network architecture, protocols and network topology
• Ability to perform duties in a very fast-paced environment and ability to learn new technology quickly
• Basic knowledge in using ticketing and software tools to support the current operations
• Basic knowledge of network devices and basic network appliances
• Ability to use personal computer and software applications
• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English

Preferred Qualifications
Education

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Preferred Skills

• Expert Knowledge in AWS services
• Expertise in Kubernetes and networking
• Strong database knowledge pertaining to Aurora, Document DB, dynamodb, Cassandra and MongoDB
• Intermediate knowledge on Lambda, SQS, SNS, Kafka.
• Knowledge on monitoring tools like Data Dog, Splunk and Kibana and build complex queries to support troubleshooting
• Strong knowledge on common LINUX operating systems and Python scripting
• Knowledge of Spectrum products and services

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This job posting will remain open until 2026-03-27 07:00 PM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between
$110,800.00 and $196,400.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
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