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Principal Cloud Engineer

Principal Cloud Engineer

locationMerrimack, NH, USA
remoteHybrid
PublishedPublished: 1/24/2026
Full Time

Principal Cloud Engineer

Fidelity TalentSource is your destination for discovering your next temporary role at Fidelity Investments. We are currently sourcing for a Principal Cloud Engineer to work in Merrimack New Hampshire!

The Role

You will have the opportunity to deepen your technical expertise while collaborating with engineers across Fidelity in a lively, fast-paced, and dynamic environment. You will work closely with technical leaders, product owners, and architects to build highly reliable services using modern engineering practices. As a senior member of the team, you will lead and mentor software engineers, guiding them in industry?standards for cloud?native software development.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

Education & Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • 8+ years of experience building RESTful microservices using Java and Spring Boot
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Native development, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and CI/CD (Jenkins Core)
  • Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams

Technical Skills:

  • Strong proficiency in crafting microservices using software design patterns, the Twelve-Factor App methodology, and SDLC principles
  • Experience with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes
  • Expertise with asynchronous workers and resilient messaging platforms including Kafka, SNS, and SQS
  • Deep understanding of AWS services such as Lambda, AWS Batch, and associated scaling mechanisms
  • Proficiency in relational databases and SQL
  • Hands-on experience with unit and integration test automation using Jest, Cucumber, JUnit, and Mockito

Engineering Excellence:

  • Ability to design and build resilient, fault-tolerant systems capable of operating in unreliable environments
  • Strong critical thinking skills and the ability to design end-to-end solutions
  • Passion for learning new technologies, frameworks, and engineering practices
  • Excellent analytical and communication skills, with the ability to prioritize optimally
  • Participation in key engineering practices such as code reviews, design reviews, environment strategy, and CI/CD pipeline improvements
  • Strong organization and attention to detail
  • Sophisticated solving skills, with the ability to quickly diagnose and resolve performance, resiliency, or production issues
  • Ability to interpret and analyze product requirements, and translate them into scalable, secure, and cloud-native technical designs that align with business goals and architectural standards.
  • Collaborate with product owners and architects to define solution approaches, create design artifacts, and ensure the technical vision supports long?term product strategy.
  • Evaluate trade-offs, identify dependencies, and propose design patterns that optimize performance, resiliency, and maintainability.

Dynamic Working

Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office.