Principal DevOps Engineer

Section 1: Position Summary

As aDevOps Principal Engineer you will provide technical leadership and architectural direction for DevOps CI/CD and cloudnative engineering practices across multiple agile teams. You will partner closely with architects engineers security and infrastructure teams to design scalable secure and highly automated delivery platforms that enable teams to ship software faster and more reliably.

This role is ideal for a handson technical leader who enjoys working at both thestrategic and tactical levelssetting standards guiding teams and occasionally rolling up their sleeves to solve complex engineering problems or lead proofs of concept.

You will also serve as a champion ofDevOps and DevSecOps culture continuously improving developer experience platform reliability and operational excellence.

• Provide architectural oversight and technical direction for DevOps CI/CD and platform engineering practices across multiple scrum teams.
• Partner with Application and Program Architects to align DevOps solutions with business and product strategy.
• Define and evolve standards for build deployment infrastructure and environment management.
• Design reusable reference architectures templates and patterns for consistent adoption across teams.

• Lead the design and implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines including build test release and deployment workflows.
• Establish best practices for source control branching strategies and release management.
• Design Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for provisioning and managing environments.
• Embed security and compliance controls directly into pipelines (DevSecOps).

• Drive adoption of containerized and cloudnative architectures using Kubernetesbased platforms.
• Ensure platforms meet standards for scalability resiliency performance and cost efficiency.
• Guide teams on service networking API management load balancing and traffic management.
• Support high availability disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.

• Provide Level3 support for complex production incidents and reliability challenges.
• Partner with operations and engineering teams to improve observability monitoring and alerting.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve system stability and operational maturity.

• Mentor and coach engineers on DevOps practices tools and architectural decisionmaking.
• Promote a culture of automation ownership continuous improvement and quality.
• Model strong collaboration communication and engineering discipline.

• Research emerging tools technologies and practices to improve the software delivery lifecycle.
• Build consensus and introduce costeffective solutions that increase delivery speed quality and reliability.
• Continuously optimize DevOps platforms and processes based on measurable outcomes.

• 10 yearsof handson experience in DevOps Platform Engineering Build & Release or Engineering Operations roles.
• Proven experience designing and supporting DevOps architecture inenterprisescale production environments.
• Strong experience withAgile/Scrum Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Handson experience deploying and troubleshooting applications inLinux and Windowsenvironments.
• Advanced automation and scripting experience usingPowerShell Python or similar languages.
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools such asGitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins.
• Deep expertise inDocker and Kubernetes.
• Strong experience withInfrastructure as Codetools (e.g.Terraform).
• Proficiency with configuration management tools such asAnsible Puppet or Chef.
• Solid understanding of:
  • Microservices and cloudnative architectures
  • Networking load balancing caching and service discovery
  • Security secrets management and certificate management
  • High availability resiliency and disaster recovery
• Handson experience withAWScloud services.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and guide technical direction across teams.

• Experience withobservability and monitoring platforms(Prometheus Grafana ELK/OpenSearch Datadog etc.).
• Experience withNGINX / NGINX PlusConsul andRedis.
• Exposure toSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)practices and reliability metrics.
• Experience supporting large enterprise platforms (BPM CRM Portals Content Management).
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent professional experience.

• Java ecosystem experience (JDK Spring Boot Struts)
• JavaScript frameworks such as Angular React or
• Experience with monolith microservices and eventdriven architectures
• Experience withTestDriven Development (TDD)and automated testing frameworks

• Work on largescale missioncritical systems with real customer impact
• Influence architecture and DevOps strategy across multiple teams
• Partner with strong engineering and architecture leadership
• Be part of a culture that valuesquality integrity and continuous improvement

The national average salary range for this role is$150-200k in base pay exclusive of any bonuses and base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salary offered will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location experience performance and internal pay alignment. We do not anticipate that candidates hired will begin at the top of the range however from time to time it may occur on a case-by-case basis. Other rewards and benefits may include: 401(k) match Medical Dental Vision Paid-Time-Off etc. For more information please visit are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer

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