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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Cloud Engineer - Infrastructure (Automation & BCDR) - **Company:** ForeFlight - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Salary:** $208,000.0 - $244,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Databases, Continuous Integration, Disaster Recovery, Queueing Systems, Reliability Engineering, Policy as Code, Pulumi, System Availability, Terraform - **Published:** June 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a4ef26f14ba654ef ## About the Role * 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 * Experience in aviation, regulated industries, or other domains with mission-critical workloads and strict business continuity requirements * Background contributing to or evaluating resilience standards and frameworks (ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34, or industry equivalents) ## Description * Own and evolve infrastructure automation platforms; 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