Principal DevOps Engineer

Overview

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead. At the heart of Veeva are our values:
Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We became a public benefit corporation (PBC) in 2021, legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors. As a Work Anywhere company, we support flexibility to work from home or in the office.
Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

The Veeva PLM team is seeking a Principal Dev Ops Engineer to design and build our next-gen infrastructure on AWS. Lead the migration of our platform and create a new, scalable environment from scratch. You will have complete ownership over tooling and the CI/CD pipeline in a startup-like setting. This is a hands-on, self-starter role that balances performance, cost, and reliability.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the architectural vision with deep expertise in cloud architecture, design patterns, and modern programming to build a highly scalable and reliable infrastructure.

• Drive Dev Ops best practices by implementing an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy using Terraform and Ansible to manage, deploy, and scale infrastructure.

• Build the CI/CD pipeline by designing and managing end-to-end workflows, automating processes for Development, QA, Stage and production deployments.

• Ensure platform reliability by focusing on durability, availability, performance, and correctness to minimize the risk of failures.

• Shape the future of the stack by recommending and implementing architectural enhancements, security policies, and new methodologies.

Requirements

• Experienced Dev Ops professional with at least 5 years of hands-on experience, focusing on automation, tooling, and building distributed, scalable systems.

• AWS expertise with design and implementation of deployment architectures, including core services such as VPC, EKS, EC2, IAM, S3, and more.

• Containerization and orchestration experience using Kubernetes and related technologies.

• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or Ansible.

• CI/CD and Git experience, including Git Lab and tools like Jenkins or Git Lab CI/CD.

• Monitoring and observability knowledge, with familiarity of Grafana, Prometheus, and Elasticsearch is a plus.

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Location:

PST or MST time zone preferred.

• Applicants must have unrestricted right to work in the United States. Sponsorship is not provided at this time.

Nice to Have

• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash or Groovy.

• Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Elasticsearch).

• Knowledge of artifact management solutions (Nexus, ECR).

• Familiarity with code validation and linting tools (Sonar).

Learn More

• Engineer Perspective: 3 Reasons to Consider Veeva

• Engineering at Veeva

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance

• Flexible PTO and company-paid holidays

• Retirement programs

• 1% charitable giving program

Compensation

• Base pay: $150,000 - $300,000

• The salary range provided complies with local regulations and represents a potential base salary for this role. Actual salaries may vary based on experience and location. Offers may include additional compensation such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.

Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries. Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.

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