AU Principal DevOps Engineer Autostore DevOps & Release not stated ago

Auto Store holds a simple yet powerful vision: to store and move things for everyone, everywhere. Founded in Norway, we've grown into a global technology company. Auto Store uses advanced software to automate and orchestrate order fulfillment. Our goal is to ensure orders arrive faster than ever, with minimal environmental impact. That’s how we help brands exceed customer expectations.

We have more than 1600 systems in nearly 60 countries, and we grow continuously as a community of employees, partners, customers, suppliers, and connected technologies. Automation should make life easier, and by listening carefully to our community, we innovate to meet the industry’s most complex needs. With Auto Store, brands gain speed, efficiency, and improved workplaces. And much more floor space.

Auto Store – moving things forward.

As a Principal Dev Ops Engineer, you will take full ownership of the Dev Ops function for the Qubit Fulfillment Platform, a warehouse automation application that operates 24/7 globally. You will design, build, and operate the Azure infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and automation that product squads depend on to release safely and frequently. You will own the tooling and standards that make that possible, from infrastructure as code through to release orchestration and environment provisioning.

This is an individual contributor role with significant influence. You will set Dev Ops best practices across the Qubit squads, provide technical guidance to other engineers and to contractors, review infrastructure and pipeline work produced by others, and act as an escalation point for infrastructure and release issues. You will work closely with the Platform team, Site Reliability Engineers, and Senior Software Engineers across the Qubit organization.

• Mentor and provide technical guidance to Dev Ops engineers and contractors, and review the infrastructure and pipeline work they produce

• Monitor and optimize cloud consumption and application service costs (this position does not have formal budget ownership)

• Design, build, and operate the platform's cloud infrastructure, primarily on Microsoft Azure

• Build and maintain automation and internal tooling in C# and Python, and script operational tasks in Power Shell or Bash

• Define and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep, or Ansible, and operate containerized workloads on Kubernetes

• Configure and troubleshoot platform networking, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NAT, and routing

• Apply cloud security best practices and keep infrastructure aligned with compliance requirements

• Implement and maintain secure access and transport using protocols such as SSH, HTTPS, IPsec, and AAA

• Operate a 24x7 global application to its high availability and uptime targets

• Design and operate CI/CD pipelines and release automation for gradual, multi-service deployments, using Azure Dev Ops, CircleCI, and Octopus Deploy

• Build and maintain observability and centralized logging with tooling such as New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana

• Participate in on-call rotation and incident management, lead root cause analysis, and run post-mortem reviews

• Manage, patch, and harden both Linux and Windows environments

• Design, develop, and manage global multi-tenant cloud infrastructure and the data services behind it, including PostgreSQL and Elastic Cluster

• Apply distributed systems and algorithmic fundamentals to platform design decisions

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across cloud-based processes and services

• Act as the escalation point for complex infrastructure and release issues

• Collaborate with product squads, the Platform team, and Site Reliability Engineers to deliver cloud solutions

• Communicate technical concepts and…