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Principal Cloud Engineer

Fidelity

Fidelity

Durham, NC, USA
USD 107k-216k / year
Posted on Dec 3, 2025
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Job Description:

Principal Cloud Engineer

The Role

As a Principal Cloud Engineer, you blend deep public Cloud (AWS & Azure) Container Platform services, Kubernetes services experience and resiliency engineering expertise with a passion for delivering results. Our Container platform management engineering group within Enterprise Infrastructure DCS(Distributed Compute and Storage) combines Container Platform Operations Excellence with the Development Experience to deliver services at high scale, high availability with resilience by using automation and Infrastructure Code. We build reliability into our ecosystem by applying best practices in Resiliency Engineering, Automation, Observability & Chaos Testing.

This individual should have hands-on experience on developing and maintaining CICD pipelines, EKS support and maintenance, Maintaining Stash repository, automating manual processes and release process improvement. This individual will be partnering with product delivery teams across the firm to help them with onboarding applications onto the Cloud, providing suggestions and helping with the right infrastructure configurations on the cloud. He/she will be actively involved in the transformation of the support operating model with an aggressively changing application infrastructure from On-prem and AWS native model to Kubernetes (EKS).

  • Creating scalable solutions and automation to monitor the Container Platform health and establish signals to drive understanding of our public Cloud and Container Platform environments.
  • Strengthening event based data-driven operational processes with Fidelity support and incident management teams for our cloud ecosystem.
  • Maintain Kubernetes platform, EKS and AKS clusters creation, rehydration services across enterprise and help with Helm charts, Deployments.

The Expertise and The Skills You Bring:

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in a technology-related field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, etc.) required.
  • Production experience running Kubernetes workloads EKS/AKS/RKS(Rancher)
  • Experience managing and maintaining Kubernetes Clusters on EKS/AKS and RKS.
  • Experience creating and deploying Helm charts & libraries
  • 10+ years of hands-on experience deploying and/or supporting highly distributed multi-tiered systems at scale.
  • 8+ years of experience in Cloud development (AWS/Azure) and migration skills
  • Experience building and deploying Docker images including Docker Compose
  • Hands-on experience with Jenkins Core, including authoring and maintaining declarative CI/CD pipelines and libraries
  • Proficiency with UNIX operating systems and shell scripting
  • Programming experience, Python and/ or Golang (both preferred).
  • Experience with distributed version control systems, Git preferred.
  • Experience crafting and maintaining logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities using tools like Datadog and Splunk
  • 10+ years of experience in software development with Python, NodeJS, or Java with a focus on SDLC and automation
  • Practical experience in building cloud hosted and native applications for the enterprise. Maintains a deep understanding of a wide variety of AWS/Azure services that support reliability, observability, and automation/orchestration.
  • Possess at least one cloud certification (AWS or Azure preferred).
  • Experience in incident/crisis management and supporting mission critical applications.
  • Possess at least one cloud certification (AWS or Azure preferred).
  • Experience in incident/crisis management and supporting mission critical applications.
  • Solid understanding of Cloud Computing and DevOps concepts including CI/CD pipelines
  • Hands-on Kubernetes skills and knowledge Hands on experience with one or more observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, etc.)
  • Ability to automate with various scripting languages (Python, Shell scripting, etc.)
  • Experience managing systems using infrastructure as code tools (IAM, ARM, Terraform, Chef)
  • Ability to triage, execute root cause analysis, and be decisive under pressure.
  • Experience managing and interpreting large datasets using query languages and visualization tools (Power BI/ Tableau), data driven approach to analyze cloud health events and alerts at scale.

The Team:

You work in partnership with the Fidelity Container Platform teams, other observability & resiliency, reliability engineering teams across enterprise. You will work with development teams across Fidelity to understand their usage and need of cloud services and drive reliable and intelligent adoption and ongoing usage of cloud.

The base salary range for this position is $107,000-216,000 USD per year.

Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate’s relevant experience, and other factors.

Base salary is only part of the total compensation package. Depending on the position and eligibility requirements, the offer package may also include bonus or other variable compensation.

We offer a wide range of benefits to meet your evolving needs and help you live your best life at work and at home. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support, market-leading retirement, generous paid time off and parental leave, charitable giving employee match program, and educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career. Note, the application window closes when the position is filled or unposted.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles.

Certifications:

Category:

Information Technology

Company overview

At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want! We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process.

If you would like to request an accommodation, please contact us at:

accommodations@fmr.com

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Join us

At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

Benefits
Learning & development
Culture

Benefits that adapt to everything life sends your way

401(k) with company match

Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

16-week maternity leave & 12-week parental leave

Student loan assistance

Fidelity is invested in you

Committed to Professional Development

At Fidelity, we are constantly adapting to the changing needs of our customers, new technologies, and better ways of working. And we empower our employees to do the same, with an emphasis on developing skills and connections that will help propel you forward in your career while being able to make an impact for Fidelity’s customers around the world.

We offer a wide range of options for professional development including online, in-person, and mentor driven solutions. Special interest and networking groups are also part of our culture of empowerment, personal and professional enrichment, diversity and inclusion, and knowledge sharing.

Continuing Education & Training

  • Assess, build, and align your development plan through resources like our skill-building classroom and online courses.
  • Video-based training for technology, leadership, management & more.
  • Ongoing skills development and coaching opportunities.
  • Paid training with a facilitator who is dedicated to your onboarding and will track and evaluate your progress, giving you strategies to improve.
  • A range of talent development programs to support career mobility.

Mentoring

  • Utilize the skills of experienced leaders to enrich your career.
  • Dedicated mentors to help you grow into new areas of Fidelity’s business as you develop new skills.
  • An open atmosphere of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
  • Opportunities to pay it forward, sharing the knowledge you develop and as you help others define how they want their career to take shape.

Our Commitment

Discover opportunities to build a fulfilling career within a supportive culture that celebrates individuality. We empower our associates to pursue career paths that align with their unique goals and personalities.

Giving back to our communities

Throughout Fidelity, you’ll find a genuine commitment to social responsibility – where we strive to make an impact for customers, while also making an impact on the world.

Fidelity Cares

  • Provides associates with opportunities to actively volunteer and share their talents.
  • Hosts numerous company-wide volunteer events (in-person and virtual).
  • Partners with nonprofit organizations to support our local communities.
  • More than 12,500 associates donate time annually – from interns to SVPs.
  • Impact includes refurbishing schools, donating books and supplies, and teaching financial literacy.

Fidelity Charitable®

  • Created to make it easy for people to support charitable organizations they care about.
  • Helped deliver $14.9billion in donor-recommended grants to charity in 2024.
  • Supported more than 433,000 unique charities around the world.
  • Since its inception, more than $100 billion has been given to public charities.

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