What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Cloud Engineer / Philly / Azure / Terraform / Direct Hire position at Motion Recruitment?
The Principal Cloud Engineer is a full-time, permanent role based in Philadelphia, PA, with a hybrid schedule requiring onsite work Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. This senior-level position is focused on Azure platform architecture, cloud engineering leadership, and enterprise cloud adoption.
This role sits on a small, high-visibility cloud team responsible for shaping Azure standards, landing zones, and hybrid infrastructure strategy. The environment includes Azure, Terraform, Terragrunt, GitHub, containers, SQL, AVS, AVD, and cloud transformation initiatives. Required Skills & Experience
This role sits on a small, high-visibility cloud team responsible for shaping Azure standards, landing zones, and hybrid infrastructure strategy. The environment includes Azure, Terraform, Terragrunt, GitHub, containers, SQL, AVS, AVD, and cloud transformation initiatives. Required Skills & Experience
- Deep hands-on Azure experience, ideally building environments from the ground up
- Azure landing zone design and implementation
- Terraform and Terragrunt infrastructure-as-code experience
- GitHub, DevOps practices, and CI/CD knowledge
- Containers in Azure, strong SQL/database expertise, and experience across on-prem and cloud environments
- AWS experience
- Azure AI Foundry and AI/ML platform experience
- Apache Airflow experience
- Azure Data Factory experience
- Experience influencing and aligning teams without direct authority
- Design and build Azure environments that support teams across the organization
- Own Azure landing zone architecture and standards
- Refine cloud processes and drive cloud adoption across IT teams
- Serve as the Azure subject matter expert and technical bridge between teams
- Support cloud migration initiatives and guide AVS/AVD infrastructure decisions
- Azure, Azure Landing Zones, AVS, AVD
- Terraform, Terragrunt
- GitHub, DevOps, CI/CD
- Containers, SQL
- AWS, Azure AI Foundry, Apache Airflow, Azure Data Factory
- Azure architecture and platform engineering
- Cloud governance, standards, and process improvement
- Infrastructure design and cloud cost planning
- Hybrid cloud and on-premises integration
- Cross-functional technical leadership and collaboration
- Salary: $170,000 - $190,000 base
- Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
- Location: Philadelphia, PA
- Work Arrangement: Hybrid (onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
Salary : $170,000 - $190,000