Principal DevOps Engineer

Position Summary

As a Dev Ops Principal Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and architectural direction for Dev Ops, CI/CD, and cloud‑native 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 hands‑on technical leader who enjoys working at both the strategic and tactical levels—setting 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 of Dev Ops and Dev Sec Ops  culture, continuously improving developer experience, platform reliability, and operational excellence.

• Provide architectural oversight and technical direction for Dev Ops, CI/CD, and platform engineering practices across multiple scrum teams.
• Partner with Application and Program Architects to align Dev Ops 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 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 (Dev Sec Ops ).
• Drive adoption of containerized and cloud‑native architectures using Kubernetes-based 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 Level‑3 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 Dev Ops practices, tools, and architectural decision‑making.
• 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 cost‑effective solutions that increase delivery speed, quality, and reliability.
• Continuously optimize Dev Ops platforms and processes based on measurable outcomes.

• 10+ years of hands‑on experience in Dev Ops, Platform Engineering, Build & Release, or Engineering Operations roles.
• Proven experience designing and supporting Dev Ops architecture in enterprise‑scale production environments.
• Strong experience with Agile/Scrum, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery.
• Hands‑on experience deploying and troubleshooting applications in Linux and Windows environments.
• Advanced automation and scripting experience using Power Shell, Python, or similar languages.
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools such as Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins.
• Deep expertise in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform).
• Proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Solid understanding of Microservices and cloud‑native architectures, networking, load balancing, caching, service discovery, security, secrets management, certificate management, high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS cloud services.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and guide technical direction across teams.

• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Open Search, Datadog, etc.).
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