Principal Engineer, DevOps & Infrastructure

# Principal Engineer, Dev Ops & Infrastructure Department Technology Employment  Type Full-time

Location

Remote / Hybrid / Conshohocken, PAReports ToCTO##
** About Zero Eyes, Inc.
** Zero Eyes was founded by former Navy SEALs, self-starters and elite technologists with a mission to reduce the threat and impact of mass shootings and gun-related violence using our best-in-class artificial intelligence (AI) platform that detects visible firearms before there’s a threat. As a member of the Zero Eyes team, you’ll have the unique opportunity to join a forward-facing, purpose-driven company, and your perseverance and individual skill set will become crucial to our mission’s success.##

** About the role
** We’re looking for a low-ego, high-ownership
** Principal Engineer
** to provide technical oversight, mentoring, and hands-on design for our Dev Ops and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) stack. You’ll be the bar-setter for reliability, security, and velocity across our cloud and orchestration platform.
** AWS and FedRAMP experience is highly desired**—you’ll help us build, document, and run systems that meet rigorous compliance requirements while staying developer-friendly and cost-efficient.

We value people who have strong, well-informed opinions and express them diplomatically, who care more about
** truth than winning arguments**, who mentor generously, and who take personal responsibility for the organization’s success.##
** What you’ll do**
* ** Own the platform architecture:
** Define target state for cloud, network, identity, and runtime orchestration across AWS.
* ** Lead Infrastructure as Code:
** Establish standards and reusable modules (Terraform/Pulumi), policy-as-code (Kyvernol), Git Ops workflows (FluxCD/Kustomize), and immutable images (Gitlab/Dagger).
* ** Drive FedRAMP/NIST alignment:
** Map controls (NIST 800-53), lead technical portions of the SSP, implement CIS/STIG hardening, FIPS-validated crypto usage, logging/monitoring requirements, and support ATO and continuous monitoring (Con Mon) with auditors/3

PAO.
* ** Elevate reliability:
** Define SLOs/error budgets, incident response/runbooks, postmortems without blame, chaos and DR testing, multi-AZ/region strategies, and cost-aware resilience (RTO/RPO).
* ** Hands-on enablement:
** Pair with teams to deliver CI/CD (Git Lab Pipelines), container platforms (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE, ECS, Fargate), and service meshes/ingress.
* ** Security by default:
** Identity & access (IAM/Okta, SSO/SAML/OIDC), secrets (AWS SM/KMS), supply-chain security (SBOM, Sigstore/Cosign, SLSA/SSDF), network segmentation/zero-trust.
* ** Observability:
** Standardize metrics/logs/traces (Prometheus/Grafana/Open Telemetry, ELK/Datadog), golden signals, actionable alerts, and capacity planning/Fin Ops.
* ** Mentor & multiply:
** Coach SRE/Dev Ops/Platform engineers, run design reviews/ADRs, and establish pragmatic guardrails that speed teams up.
* ** Vendor & cost management:
** Evaluate and right-size infra/services; build dashboards and budgets that the business can trust.
* ** Documentation & audits:
** Keep docs current (runbooks, diagrams, control evidence); make auditors happy without slowing engineers.##
** What you’ll bring
*** 10+ years building/running production infrastructure; 5+ years leading Dev Ops/SRE or platform teams; prior
** Principal/Staff
** scope.
* ** FedRAMP Moderate
** experience and working with a 3

PAO.
* Deep IaC expertise (Terraform or Pulumi), Git Ops, and modern CI/CD; wide breadth of knowledge, including container orchestration (ECS/EKS) and container security.
* Multi-cloud proficiency (AWS strongly preferred).
* Security engineering literacy: NIST/CIS/STIG, FIPS 140-2/3 crypto usage, key management (KMS/HSM), least-privilege IAM, and policy-as-code.
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