Principal Cloud Engineer

Lirio is a technology/software company that provides expertise in a variety of behavioral science domains (e.g., behavioral economics, social psychology, public health), data science, and machine learning to drive consumer engagement, close gaps in preventive and chronic care, and promote health and well-being across an individual’s lifespan. Lirio’s behavior change AI platform unites behavioral science with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver Precision Nudging health interventions. Precision Nudging is the application of behavioral science to health interventions personalized by AI to each individual that overcome barriers to action at the right time and place for scalable, behavior change. 

Remote 

Position Summary 

Lirio is offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced cloud engineer skilled in infrastructure, supporting and contributing to software engineering, technical leadership, solutions architecture, distributed systems, and cloud-native and cloud-agnostic technologies to join us in meeting the challenge to improve health for everyone and develop, maintain, and improve both our SaaS product cloud infrastructure and the infrastructure components of our client deployable enterprise capability for our Kubernetes-based behavior change AI platform. This is a chance to contribute to Lirio’s core platform, SaaS product, and enterprise solution, and work with innovative infrastructure, multiple cloud providers, and cloud-agnostic technologies and change lives by improving health. 

The Principal Cloud Engineer is responsible for helping define and support cloud infrastructure architecture, cloud engineering practices, infrastructure automation, and related tooling for Lirio applications, products, services, and engineers. This role provides end to end support to technical engineers for computing platforms and resources and offers guidance in both tooling and team integrations to mitigate risks and enhance innovation. This includes technical leadership and aiding cloud, software, data, and machine learning engineers in designing and architecting cloud-agnostic and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) aligned cloud-native solutions, acquiring infrastructure, and deploying them at scale; providing technical guidance to cloud practices and architectural approaches; supporting and running Lirio’s Software-As-A-Service (SAAS) solutions while helping Lirio and our clients with strategic integration of custom packaged solutions like an enterprise solution to be deployed within client cloud environments as needed. 

The Principal Cloud Engineer is also responsible for improving engineering processes, making technical decisions, driving technology adoption, and working with other technical leaders to alter the engineering and technical landscape. Additionally, the Principal Cloud Engineer may have some people leadership responsibilities and provides support and leadership across the organization. 

To succeed in this role, the Principal Cloud Engineer will need expert experience with infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, and cloud platform providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, supporting customers deploying software to public and private clouds, and will need proven experience supporting distributed systems using Python or Java technology stacks. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities 

• Act as an expert technical leader to and partner with cloud engineers and other engineers, and be responsible for technical aspects of Lirio’s infrastructure across Lirio’s technology product portfolio 
• Perform solution architecture tasks such as system designs and design reviews related to infrastructure for Lirio’s technology product portfolio 
• Support the design and planning of cloud-agnostic solutions capable of being deployed to multiple cloud providers and customer public cloud and private data centers 
• Design, implement, test, deploy, maintain, and support cloud-native and cloud-agnostic self-healing infrastructure across environments, multiple cloud providers, and customer data centers as a top-level contributor 
• Plan, implement, and support a developer platform to improve self-service 
• Collaborate with development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud services and infrastructure solutions and address issues as they arise 
• Review existing systems and offer recommendations for improvement 
• Identify, analyze, mitigate and resolve infrastructure issues, vulnerabilities, and application deployment issues through monitoring, scanning, observability, and processes  
• Support and improve Lirio’s engineering practices including an emphasis on quality and security 
• Document architectural decisions, design patterns, best practices, work produc