[Remote] Principal Consultant, Cloud & Platform Engineering (AWS Focus)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Turnberry Solutions is seeking a Principal Consultant specializing in Cloud & Platform Engineering with a focus on AWS. This senior technical leader will partner with clients to design and deliver cloud solutions, engage in pre-sales activities, and provide architectural guidance across multi-cloud environments.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior technical advisor to client stakeholders, including engineering leaders, architects, and executives
- Lead discussions around cloud strategy, platform design, and modernization approaches
- Help clients define realistic roadmaps that balance business goals, security, cost, and operational maturity
- Translate business problems into clear technical solutions that teams can execute
- Partner with the sales team during pre-sales activities to support opportunity development
- Participate in client discovery calls, technical deep dives, and solutioning sessions
- Help define scope, architecture approach, assumptions, and risks during proposal development
- Review and contribute to statements of work, ensuring technical accuracy and feasibility
- Act as a trusted technical voice in early client conversations to build credibility and trust
- Design and review enterprise-grade AWS architectures, including networking, identity, security, compute, and data services
- Provide architectural guidance for clients operating in multi-cloud or hybrid environments
- Set technical direction and guardrails for delivery teams across engagements
- Ensure solutions align with AWS best practices, security standards, and client constraints
- Guide clients in adopting infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and modern CI/CD practices
- Advise on observability, reliability, and operational readiness, including logging, monitoring, and incident response
- Help organization move from project-based delivery toward sustainable platform and product models
- Mentor architects and senior engineers across projects
- Serve as an escalation point for complex technical decisions
- Contribute to internal reference architectures, standards, and accelerators
- Support internal capability growth and consistency across cloud engagements
Skills
- 10 or more years of experience in cloud architecture, platform engineering, or enterprise systems
- Strong background delivering consulting or professional services engagements
- Experience working directly with client leaders and technical decision-makers
- Comfortable balancing hands-on technical depth with strategic advisory responsibilities
- AWS expertise
- Deep experience designing and operating solutions on AWS in production environments
- Strong understanding of services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route 53, RDS, DynamoDB, and S3
- Experience designing for security, high availability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization
- Multi-Cloud experience
- Working knowledge of Azure and or GCP
- Ability to compare cloud services, patterns, and tradeoffs across providers
- Experience supporting hybrid or multi-cloud architectures, even if AWS is the primary platform
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
- Comfortable presenting to clients and facilitating technical discussions
- Pragmatic mindset that balances ideal architecture with real-world constraints
- Collaborative, calm under pressure, and trusted by both clients and internal teams
- AWS certifications preferred, especially Solutions Architect Professional
Benefits
- A comprehensive healthcare package (medical, dental, vision)
- Disability and group term life insurance
- Health and flexible spending accounts
- A utilization bonus
- 401(k) with match
- Flexible time off for salaried employees
- Parental leave for salaried employees
- Flexible work arrangements (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
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