Software Engineer Principal ( Sr DevOps Engineer

Position Overview

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success. As a Software Engineering Principal within PNC's Technology organization, you will be based in Dallas, TX or Pittsburgh, PA.

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At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success. As a Software Engineering Principal within PNC's Technology organization, you will be based in Dallas, TX or Pittsburgh, PA.

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success. As a Software Engineering Principal within PNC's Technology organization, you will be based in Dallas, TX or Pittsburgh, PA.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Dev Ops Engineer to design, implement, automate, and support enterprise Dev Ops capabilities across a portfolio of mission-critical applications and platforms. This individual will be responsible for building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, release automation, infrastructure automation, deployment tooling, observability solutions, and platform engineering capabilities that enable development teams to deliver software securely, reliably, and efficiently.

The ideal candidate possesses strong Linux administration skills, deep expertise in automation and release engineering, and hands-on experience with container platforms, infrastructure as code, monitoring, Dev Sec Ops , and production support. This role will partner closely with application development, infrastructure, architecture, security, and operations teams to drive automation, standardization, reliability, and operational excellence.

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines and release automation frameworks.
• Automate application deployment, environment promotion, and rollback processes across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Lead the automation of Pega deployment and promotion activities while establishing repeatable deployment patterns for other application platforms.
• Support production turnovers, releases, and maintenance activities, including direct execution of deployments when required.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to automate provisioning, configuration, and platform management.
• Build and maintain automation using Ansible, Jenkins, scripting languages, and other Dev Ops tooling.
• Engineer containerized deployment solutions using Docker, Kubernetes, and Open Shift.
• Implement and support monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability platforms to improve system reliability and operational visibility.
• Partner with security teams to integrate vulnerability scanning, compliance checks, secrets management, and Dev Sec Ops  controls into delivery pipelines.
• Develop operational standards, deployment procedures, runbooks, and disaster recovery processes.
• Support root cause analysis, incident management, problem management, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging Dev Ops technologies and recommend solutions that improve automation, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for Dev Ops practices, release engineering, platform management, and operational excellence.

• 7+ years of experience in Dev Ops Engineering, Release Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering…