Principal DevOps Engineer II

IDEXX Dev Ops contributes to the success of IDEXX employees and customers by providing scalable, innovative solutions and technical leadership. As part of a global Information Technology organization, our Dev Ops engineers are embedded with product teams — enabling fast, reliable delivery of the software that helps veterinary professionals around the world deliver exceptional care.

Vet Connect PLUS is IDEXX’s platform to deliver veterinary practices a single, unified view of diagnostic results across in‑house analyzers and reference laboratories — trusted by practices around the world to inform patient care every day.

As a Principal Dev Ops Engineer II
, you bring deep technical ownership to the systems that power Vet Connect PLUS — shaping the direction of its AWS and GCP infrastructure, Git Hub Actions pipelines, and Datadog observability alongside a close‑knit agile team. You lead from within the team: writing production infrastructure code, mentoring engineers, driving technical decisions, and solving the most complex delivery and reliability challenges. You are the go‑to person for the hardest problems, the most ambiguous requirements, and the broadest operational questions — and you make the engineers around you better in the process.

Beyond your embedded role, you lead the DXSE Dev Ops Squad — a group of 3–4 senior Dev Ops engineers embedded across Diagnostic Software Engineering teams — blending hands‑on engineering with squad leadership, coaching, and organisational influence. You set the standard for how Dev Ops is done in DXSE and champion a culture where developers and testers own their operational footprint — you accelerate their capability, not replace it.

• You will work collaboratively with software application and engineering teams to deploy and operate our systems
• You will work collaboratively with business partners with strong focus on business outcomes
• You will use your Cloud experience
• You will build the whole stack from ELBs to databases
• You will automate and streamline operations and processes
• You will build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations
• You will troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test and production environments
• You will embrace, promote, and support frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
• You will participate in on‑going learning

• Your location:
  We are only considering those driving distance to our corporate HQ in Westbrook, Maine with the flexible hybrid requirement of only 8 days per month on‑site. Alternatively, we are also open to those in NH or MA that can do on‑sites less often.
• 10+ years of demonstrated experience designing and executing deployments with little to no outage window as well as demonstrated experience building, deploying, and configuring full application stacks (Java Spring)
• Coding or scripting proficiency
• Demonstrated re‑engineering experience
  
  Communicating and collaborating with others, especially across functional border
• Preferred
  - Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services
• Experience with SQL and MySQL (No
  
  SQL experience is a plus)
• Experience using a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Experience creating repeatable deployment templates or similar to build services that support our various software applications
• A working understanding of code and script (PHP, Python, JSON, Perl and/or Ruby)
• Strong grasp of automation tools
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always‑up, always‑available service
• Financial acumen
  - Able to balance cost with requirements

• Base annual salary target: $140000 - $160000 (yes, we do have flexibility if needed)
• Opportunity for annual cash bonus as well as yearly equity award
• Health / Dental / Vision Benefits Day‑One
• 5% matching 401k
• Additional benefits including but not limited to financial support, pet insurance, mental health resources, volunteer paid days off, employee stock program, foundation donation matching, and much more!

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