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# Principal Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** Bloom Energy
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Border Gateway Protocol, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Github, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Octopus Deploy, Performance Tuning, Windows PowerShell, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Cloud Services, Prometheus, Runbook, Datadog, Scripting, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Delivery Pipeline, Grafana, Multi-Cloud, Firewalls (Computer Science), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Gitlab, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Data Management, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://us.experteer.com/career/view-jobs/principal-cloud-engineer-san-jose-ca-usa-58912938

## About the Role

_ and infrastructure engineers; promote engineering excellence and continuous improvement * Participate in on-call rotations and incident escalation for critical systems Tasks * Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering or related field * 10+ years in cloud/infrastructure/DevOps, with 3+ years in senior/principal/lead role * Deep AWS expertise including cloud architecture, security, and production operations * Multi-cloud experience (Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud) preferred * Strong experience designing mission-critical production environments * Cloud networking expertise (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, firewalls, BGP) * Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) * CI/CD and DevOps tools (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) * Kubernetes, containers, and modern platform patterns * Monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, CloudWatch) * Scripting/automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell) * IAM, security, encryption, compliance, resiliency aaaa
skills * Experience with SRE, incident management, runbooks, and reliability programs * Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills * Proven leadership of large-scale cross-functional technical initiatives Key requirements * Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with large employer contribution * 401(k) with company match * Mental Health Support services * Legal services * virtual Physical Therapy * Fertility & Family Forming benefits

## Description

Experteer Overview In this role you will architect and operate scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure to support enterprise apps, AI/data platforms, and modern DevOps environments. You will drive secure, resilient, and cost-conscious cloud solutions with a strong emphasis on AWS, IaC, observability, and reliability. You'll lead cross-functional initiatives, mentor engineers, and improve production readiness and incident response in a fast-moving, modernization-driven environment. This is a chance to shape Bloom Energy's cloud platform to enable mission-critical systems across energy and AI domains. Compensation / Benefits * Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud/hybrid infrastructure for enterprise apps, production workloads, AI/data platforms, and CI/CD * Architect highly available, secure, and cost-optimized solutions across cloud platforms with focus on AWS * Lead adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and CloudFormation * Develop cloud platform standards, reusable modules, and engineering patterns * Build observability capabilities (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, automated alerts) * Drive SRE practices including SLOs, error budgets, incident management, capacity planning, and reliability improvements * Lead production readiness reviews, RCA, performance optimization, resiliency planning, and operational risk assessments * Design, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps, automation, and GitOps * Integrate security, compliance, and controls into provisioning and deployment workflows * Implement automated remediation, rollback, guardrails, and self-healing patterns * Establish operational standards for monitoring, patching, change management, DR, and production support * Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, Application, and Engineering teams to align cloud platforms with governance requirements * Evaluate emerging cloud/automation/AI/ML capabilities to support modernization and scalability * Mentor cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure engineers; promote engineering excellence and continuous improvement * Participate in on-call rotations and incident escalation for critical systems Tasks * Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering or related field * 10+ years in cloud/infrastructure/DevOps, with 3+ years in senior/principal/lead role * Deep AWS expertise including cloud architecture, security, and production operations * Multi-cloud experience (Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud) preferred * Strong experience designing mission-critical production environments * Cloud networking expertise (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, firewalls, BGP) * Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) * CI/CD and DevOps tools (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) * Kubernetes, containers, and modern platform patterns * Monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, CloudWatch) * Scripting/automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell) * IAM, security, encryption, compliance, resiliency governance * Experience with SRE, incident management, runbooks, and reliability programs * Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills * Proven leadership of large-scale cross-functional technical initiatives Key requirements * Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with large employer contribution * 401(k) with company match * Mental Health Support services * Legal services * virtual Physical Therapy * Fertility & Family Forming benefits


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