Principal Cloud Platform Engineer - Magellan Health

This role sits within the Data Analytics and Data Engineering team, serving as the cloud infrastructure authority for our enterprise data platform — partnering closely with data engineers, analytics engineers, and business intelligence teams to ensure the cloud foundation powering our data ecosystem is secure, scalable, and built to last. From data ingestion and pipeline infrastructure to analytics platforms and reporting services, this engineer plays a critical role in shaping the AWS environment that drives data-informed decision making across the enterprise.

• In partnership with IT leadership, lead the cloud transformation strategy — establishing and driving cloud direction across infrastructure, platforms, applications, and data services spanning IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS implementations. (25%)
• Champion secure-by-design principles across all cloud engineering efforts, owning the identification, prioritization, and remediation of infrastructure security vulnerabilities.Coach DevOps/SecOps methodology throughout the organization, enforcing best practices for access, encryption, secrets management, and network segmentation — and bridging technical risk discussions with Legal, Compliance, and Audit teams. (25%)
• Mentor, guide, and teach engineers across IT as they solve and navigate complex problems in a changing technology landscape, elevating capabilities through design reviews, knowledge sharing, and hands-on coaching.Serve as the primary technical focal point for internal and external stakeholders on cloud engineering tasks, providing estimates of feasibility, time, and effort while monitoring projects and proactively resolving risks. (25%)
• Ensure standards and procedures are followed during the design and implementation of cloud and information systems, defining improvements that increase reliability, security, and performance across cloud platforms.Perform root cause analysis on complex infrastructure issues, act as liaison to business units on changing needs, and provide regular status updates to management, highlighting risks and progress. (25%)

The job duties listed above are representative and not intended to be all-inclusive of what may be expected of an employee assigned to this job. A leader may assign additional or other duties which would align with the intent of this job, without revision to the job description.

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