Principal Cloud Engineer

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About Vista Equity Partners Vista Equity Partners is a leading global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses. With over $100B in assets under management and a portfolio of 90+ software product companies worldwide, Vista accelerates growth through operational excellence, shared expertise, and long-term partnership. In India, Vista’s presence continues to expand with 45+ portfolio companies employing more than 17,000 professionals across technology, product, customer success, and operations — reinforcing India’s strategic role as a hub of innovation and talent within the Vista ecosystem. Through its Agentic AI Factory, Vista is embedding Generative AI across its global portfolio — enabling companies to integrate intelligent, responsible AI into products, operations, and decision-making. This initiative is strengthened through portfolio-wide learning programs, leadership workshops, and AI hackathons that foster innovation, build fluency, and accelerate practical AI adoption across teams. About Amtech Amtech is a leading provider of enterprise software solutions for the packaging, printing, and manufacturing industries. Our integrated systems streamline order management, production planning, scheduling, inventory, and business analytics — empowering customers to drive efficiency, reduce costs, and improve operational performance. With a strong commitment to innovation and customer success, Amtech delivers reliable technology backed by deep industry expertise. With Vista’s investment and strategic guidance, we combine the agility of a growing technology organization with the scale, stability, and career mobility of a global software ecosystem. Our Employee Value Proposition At Amtech, our people are our greatest differentiator. We create an environment where you can: Purpose Shape the future of manufacturing and supply chain operations by delivering mission-critical enterprise software used by industry-leading organizations. Growth Access continuous learning, leadership development, and cross-portfolio opportunities through Vista’s global network — accelerating both technical and managerial career paths. Culture Work in a collaborative, transparent, and people-first environment where values, accountability, and integrity guide every decision. Innovation Engage with cutting-edge technologies, including AI-driven automation, and contribute to modernizing financial systems and operational processes across the business. Role Description Amtech is executing an all-in AWS strategy: migrating our flagship Encore ERP to a multi-account, account-per-customer AWS architecture, operating LabelTraxx as a multi-tenant SaaS platform, and retiring legacy private-cloud infrastructure. Platform Engineering owns the landing zone, infrastructure as code, and the golden-path tooling that product teams build on. The Principal Platform Engineer is Amtech's senior-most hands-on cloud technologist. You will own the technical architecture of our AWS platform: the landing zone, the account-per-customer Encore hosting model, the golden-path IaC stack, and the migration roadmap that retires our remaining private-cloud footprint. This role carries organization-wide technical authority without people management. You will make the architecture decisions that hold for years, de-risk them through prototyping and review, and raise the engineering bar across a distributed U.S. and India team. You will also be a primary technical interface to AWS, consulting partners, and executive leadership. Key Responsibilities Architecture & Technical Strategy Own end-to-end AWS platform architecture: multi-account organization design, landing zone, networking, DNS and certificate architecture, identity, and tenancy model. Set the technical roadmap for Encore-on-AWS environment builds (temp, production, demo) on a shared golden IaC stack, and for LabelTraxx platform evolution. Define the migration architecture and sequencing that completes Amtech's exit from legacy private-cloud infrastructure. Write and defend architecture decision records; kill weak options early with evidence. Evaluate and integrate emerging capabilities, including AI/agentic tooling and MCP-based integration patterns, under Amtech's AI governance program. Platform Engineering & Delivery Author the highest leverage Terraform modules and reference implementations personally; review the rest. Set standards for CI/CD (GitHub Actions), progressive delivery, environment promotion, and secrets management. Design for reliability with SRE-track peers: SLO frameworks, observability architecture (Open Telemetry, Open Observe), and PagerDuty service models. Drive platform cost architecture with FinOps: tenancy economics, Savings Plans strategy input, and unit cost visibility. Security, Compliance & Risk Design security architecture with Information Security: IAM boundaries, network segmentation, encryption, and data governance for customer data. Ensure the platform satisfies SOC 2 and ISO 27001 obligations by design, with audit evidence generated through automation. Assess and articulate technical risk for executive decisions: migration sequencing, vendor dependencies, and single points of failure. AI Competency Design agentic and AI-assisted engineering workflows with autonomy tiers, policy-as-code guardrails, rollback, and end-to-end auditability; measure ROI against baselines. Define platform AI standards: where AI sits in the delivery lifecycle, validation layer architecture (schema, rules, model-graded, human review), and evaluation harnesses. Prevent AI-generated code from degrading platform quality at fleet scale: eval harnesses, complexity metrics, and AI-attributed defect tracking. Contribute to enterprise AI strategy and standards under Amtech's AI governance program. Technical Leadership & Influence Mentor senior engineers and raise design-review quality across U.S. and India pods. Serve as the senior technical