Principal Cloud Engineer - Infrastructure (Automation & BCDR)

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
• Lead the design and continuous validation of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategy, including RTO/RPO target-setting, failover design, chaos engineering, and recovery runbook ownership
• Build and operate observability and resilience tooling to ensure infrastructure state is fully instrumented, drift 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 complex organizational context, translating business continuity requirements from engineering, security, 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 owner of infrastructure automation platforms and resilience programs at scale
• Deep production experience designing and operating IaC at scale: Terraform (or CDK/Pulumi 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, drift 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 resilience testing in production environments, including failure-injection tooling and game-day operations
• Strong grounding in observability for infrastructure: SLOs, drift 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 credible breadth across both AWS and Azure or strong evidence you can become productive across both
• Cross-functional leadership, comfortable as a peer with senior security, 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 resilience frameworks, or aviation-relevant equivalents)
• Experience standing up or evolving a self-service infrastructure platform (Backstage, internal developer portal, or equivalent) with golden-path provisioning patterns
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure orchestration tooling beyond raw Terraform (Terragrunt, Atlantis, Spacelift, env0, Crossplane, or similar)
• Experience with chaos engineering tooling (AWS FIS, 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
• Background contributing to or evaluating resilience standards and frameworks (ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34, or industry equivalents)

About Jeppesen ForeFlight

Jeppesen ForeFlight 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 ForeFlight’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)

• Summary Pay Range: $208,000.00-$244,000.00