Principal Reliability Engineer - EDS

The Hartford
Charlotte, CT
Category Engineering
Job Description
Role Overview

The Enterprise Data Services (EDS) organization is seeking a Principal Reliability Engineer (Principal RE) to serve as the senior technical authority responsible for the reliability, resilience, availability, and performance of all data platforms, cloud infrastructure, data products, and data pipelines across the enterprise data organization.

What You Will Do

As the Principal RE, you will influence architectural direction, lead large-scale, cross-organizational technical initiatives, and drive a culture of engineering excellence, automation-first operations, and proactive reliability improvement.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role will have a Hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office (Columbus, OH, Chicago, IL, Hartford, CT or Charlotte, NC) 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday).

Requirements

  • 10+ years in one or more of the following areas: data, cloud, platform engineering, site/reliability engineering, or large-scale distributed systems, with experience in leadership or technology leader roles.
  • Proficiency with data or cloud platforms, including architectural patterns for resilience, networking, security, and distributed data infrastructure.
  • Deep experience supporting or engineering platforms such as Snowflake, EMR, Hadoop/Spark, Data Integration, and cloud-native data ecosystems.
  • Scripting and programming (preferably Python) for large-scale automation, platform tooling, and reliability frameworks.
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and enterprise CI/CD.

Benefits

  • short-term or annual bonuses
  • long-term incentives
  • on-the-spot recognition
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