About the role

What will you do at ForeFlight?

Principal Cloud Engineer - Infrastructure (Automation

& BCDR)

Jeppesen ForeFlight is redefining the future of aviation technology – equipping

pilots, operators, and decision-makers with the software tools to forge bold new

digital paths that push past the expected. We stand with those who dream bigger,

fly farther, and seek to explore the next frontier in the cockpit and operations

center. The role is preferred as Hybrid working in Austin TX, Houston TX or

Denver CO, we will consider virtual for the right candidate.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve infrastructure automation platforms; CI/CD pipelines for
infrastructure, self-
service provisioning workflows, serving engineering teams across a distributed,
multi-region
environment
• Lead the design and continuous validation of Business Continuity and Disaster
Recovery
strategy, including RTO/RPO target-setting, failover design, chaos engineering,
and
recovery runbook ownership
• Build and operate observability and resilience tooling to ensure
infrastructure state is fully
instrumented, drift is detected proactively, and failure scenarios are exercised
before they're
encountered in production
• Define and govern IaC standards (Terraform, CDK, or equivalent), including
module
strategy, state management, and guardrail enforcement across cloud accounts and
environments
• Own platform reliability outcomes, establish SLOs for core infrastructure
services, drive
down toil through systematic automation, and maintain high standards for
incident response
quality
• Operate effectively across a complex organizational context, translating
business continuity
requirements from engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders into
concrete
infrastructure design and validated recovery capability
Basic

Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering experience, with at least 7 as primary architect or
technical owner
of infrastructure automation platforms and resilience programs at scale
• Deep production experience designing and operating IaC at scale: Terraform (or
CDK/Pulumi equivalent), with strong opinions on module strategy, state
management,
policy-as-code, and guardrail enforcement across many cloud accounts and
environments
• Expert command of CI/CD for infrastructure: pipeline design, drift detection,
plan/apply
workflows, secrets handling, and self-service patterns that serve engineering
teams safely at
scale
• Track record owning Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategy
end-to-end:
setting RTO/RPO targets, designing multi-region failover, running real DR
exercises, and
translating findings into durable architectural change
• Hands-on experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing in
production
environments, including failure-injection tooling and game-day operations
• Strong grounding in observability for infrastructure: SLOs, drift detection,
state-of-the-fleet
visibility, and instrumenting both control-plane and data-plane signals
• Deep production experience in at least one major cloud (AWS preferred), with
credible
breadth across both AWS and Azure or strong evidence you can become productive
across
both
• Cross-functional leadership, comfortable as a peer with senior security,
compliance, finance,
and product engineering leaders on business continuity and audit-readiness
conversations
• Comfortable with the coordination work of a recently combined company:
divergent
automation stacks, in-flight unification, and the political work that comes with
consolidation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading a BCDR program through external audit or regulatory review
(SOC 2,
FedRAMP, ISO 22301, financial-services resilience frameworks, or
aviation-relevant
equivalents)
• Experience standing up or evolving a self-service infrastructure platform
(Backstage, internal
developer portal, or equivalent) with golden-path provisioning patterns
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure orchestration tooling beyond raw
Terraform
(Terragrunt, Atlantis, Spacelift, env0, Crossplane, or similar)
• Experience with chaos engineering tooling (AWS FIS, Azure Chaos Studio,
Gremlin, Chaos
Mesh, Litmus) in production
• Experience designing and operating cross-region or cross-cloud disaster
recovery for
stateful workloads (databases, message queues, object stores)
• Background in SRE or platform reliability with strong instincts for SLO
design, error budget
policy, and toil reduction
• Experience post-M&A integrating infrastructure automation platforms across two
or more
legacy stacks
• Experience in aviation, regulated industries, or other domains with
mission-critical workloads
and strict business continuity requirements
• Background contributing to or evaluating resilience standards and frameworks
(ISO 22301,
NIST SP 800-34, or industry equivalents)
About Jeppesen ForeFlight:
Jeppesen ForeFlight is a leading provider of innovative aviation software
solutions, serving the Commercial, Business, Military, and General Aviation
sectors globally. Combining Jeppesen’s 90-year legacy of accurate aeronautical
data with ForeFlight’s expertise in cutting-edge aviation technology, the
company delivers an integrated suite of tools designed to enhance safety,
improve operational efficiency, and sharpen decision-making.
Why You Should Join (USA):
At Jeppesen ForeFlight, we know you want a rewarding career. To do that, you
need challenging projects, a good work environment, and awesome coworkers. We
believe in our employees, and we empower them to make a direct impact on our
products and services messaging. We strive to provide our team and their loved
ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their
physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits package includes but
not limited to the following:
* Medical, dental, vision insurance with Employer paid health premiums
* Open PTO Policy
* 401(k) with up to 10% company matching and immediate vesting
* 12 Weeks Paid Parent Leave
* Flight Training Rewards
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well market and
business considerations: Summary Pay Range: $208,000.00-$244,000.00
Jeppesen ForeFlight – EOE including Disability/Vets | Pay Transparency |
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Which skills does this role require?

Disaster RecoveryAWSAzureInfrastructure as CodeSLO DesignResilience TestingPulumiMulti-region FailoverBCDRSLOSRETerragruntAtlantisSpaceliftEnv0CrossplaneAWS FISAzure Chaos StudioGremlinChaos MeshLitmusSOC 2FedRAMPISO 22301NIST SP 800-34BackstageAviation Technology

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