Cloud Enablement Engineer

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Send an email to Accessibility (accommodation requests only; other inquiries won't receive a response).Regular or Temporary:RegularLanguage Fluency:  English (Required)Work Shift:1st shift (United States of America)Please review the following job description:The Cloud Platform Engineer is a hands-on senior individual contributor embedded within a shared services organization, responsible for enabling application teams across the enterprise to safely and efficiently build, deploy, and operate workloads on the AWS cloud platform.This role sits at the intersection of cloud enablement, container security, and developer empowerment. The ideal candidate is a cloud-native engineer and natural teacher who leads by example: pairing with developers, building secure guardrails by default, and making the right path the easy path.This is a pure engineering and enablement role with no operational on-call responsibility. The engineer influences platform direction, mentor’s peers and junior engineers, and drives capability uplift across business units rather than creating dependency on the platform team.1. Cloud Enablement & Developer Empowerment• Enable application teams to adopt and operate on the enterprise AWS platform through pair programming, workshops, documentation, and training. Drive developer self-sufficiency, transfer knowledge, don't create dependency. Support adoption of enterprise Terraform modules and GitLab CI/CD pipelines, reducing friction at every step.2. Container Security & Base Image Compliance• Own and maintain hardened base container images aligned to enterprise standards. Enforce compliance automatically within CI/CD pipelines and educate teams on security best practices and guardrail rationale.3. Cloud Guardrails & Security Controls• Build and maintain guardrails, SCPs, IAM policies, and pipeline-enforced compliance checks so non-compliant deployments are blocked by default. Monitor for configuration drift and drive proactive remediation.4. Resiliency, Reliability & Chaos Engineering• Champion reliability engineering principles across teams. Conduct resiliency reviews via AWS Resilience hub and provide consulting guidance on DR and BCP requirements. Drive chaos engineering adoption to surface weaknesses proactively and help teams instrument workloads for observability.5. Automation & Toil Reduction• Build Python-based automation and reusable tooling that eliminates repetitive tasks and makes common cloud tasks faster, safer, and more consistent for platform and application teams alike.6. Technical Leadership & Collaboration• Lead technical direction within the platform team, influence roadmap, and mentor junior engineers. Conduct peer reviews, influence decisions across peer teams, and translate developer needs into platform improvements across business units. Identify and escalate cost optimization opportunities to the FinOps squad.*Please note that for this opportunity, Truist will not sponsor an applicant for work visa status or employment authorization, nor will we offer any immigration-related support for this position (including, but not limited to H-1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN-1 or TN-2, E-3, O-1, or future sponsorship for U.S. lawful permanent residence status.)**Please also note that candidates must be located in *or* willing to self-relocate to Charlotte, NC. Truist has 'in office' requirements that must be honored.ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESFollowing is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.1. Works to achieve operational targets with major impact on the infrastructure engineering department or job area results and contributes to the development of goals for area of responsibility.2. Designs, builds, manages, and implements enterprise infrastructure technology platforms and systems across cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, or middleware domains.3. Develops and applies automation, monitoring, and optimization techniques to ensure high availability and performance of infrastructure.4. Manages large infrastructure projects and programs aligned with organizational strategy and regulatory requirements.5. Collaborates with cross-functional teams and external partners to integrate new technologies and continuously improve infrastructure standards and processes.6. Troubleshoots and resolves complex technical issues impacting infrastructure performance and reliability.7. Ensures compliance with technology strategies, standards, and governance to mitigate risks and ensure regulatory adherence.8. Reviews infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures to support operational consistency and knowledge sharing.9. Provides strong technical guidance, training, and direction to infrastructure teams and lower-level technical professionals.10. Demonstrates innovative influence with stakeholders in supporting business objectives and technical strategic objectives.QualificationsRequired QualificationsThe requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.2. Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering.3. Advanced knowledge of enterprise infrastructur