Principal Cloud Engineer

Join an inclusive, collaborative Business Technology team as a Principal AWS Engineer in AbbVie BTS. In this hands-on role, you will architect, build, and optimize enterprise-scale AWS solutions, directly implementing cloud-native architectures, automation, and AI-driven enhancements in a global, highly regulated environment. You’ll lead by example—delivering robust, secure, and scalable AWS platforms—while also serving as a technical mentor and strategic leader to accelerate AbbVie’s digital transformation. 

In this role you’ll be responsible for: 

• Design and implement complex, secure cloud solutions that meet business needs and align with enterprise and functional architecture, while documenting technical decisions for clarity and reuse.  

• Lead development of AWS-based applications using Lambda, API Gateway, and ECS, and prototype scalable APIs with a focus on integration, security, reliability, and observability.  

• Build and automate infrastructure as code (IaC) with CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, and Ansible to deliver reliable, repeatable deployments at scale.  

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline) for application and infrastructure delivery, integrating automated testing, security scanning, and policy checks.  

• Implement DevOps best practices using AWS CloudFormation, GitHub, and Docker, codifying environments and promotion workflows across environments.  

• Deploy and operate containerized and serverless workloads (EKS/ECS/Fargate, Lambda/Step Functions, EventBridge), selecting optimal compute strategies for microservices, batch, and event-driven architectures.  

• Integrate and leverage AI tools (Amazon Q, Claude, Datadog AI, AWS AI/ML services) to automate operational tasks, enhance monitoring, enable predictive scaling, and streamline incident response.  

• Develop and maintain AI-driven runbooks and workflows for anomaly detection, automated remediation, and continuous improvement of cloud operations; use AI-powered solutions to identify process improvement opportunities and automate repetitive tasks.  

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance, reliability, and cost using CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and AI-driven observability platforms.  

• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements by automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, and re-designing infrastructure for scalability and efficiency.  

• Implement and enforce robust security and compliance (IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, security groups, encryption in transit/at rest) aligned to GxP, HIPAA, GDPR, and AbbVie policies; collaborate with security architecture to ensure corporate requirements are met.  

• Mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams (Security, Data, Network, Application, UX), champion the AWS Well-Architected Framework, guide incident/problem management, oversee cost management and financial governance, and build strategic relationships to advance technology initiatives.