Principal Devops Engineer

Principal Devops Engineer

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related roles, with a strong track record of delivering high-impact results
• 5+ years experience in Linux administration (RedHat)
• Strong scripting skills (BASH, Python, Go, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of configuration management software (Ansible preferred)
• Strong knowledge of deployment software (Terraform, Rundeck)
• Experience with CI/CD tools, pipelines, provisioning and troubleshooting
• Strong experience with Docker and orchestration platforms, including deployment and scaling in production environments
• Proficiency with monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog) and log aggregation platforms (e.g., Sumologic, Splunk)
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure and performance issues
• Excellent written communications: clarity, brevity, grammar
• Excellent verbal communications: articulateness, patience, listening skills
• Professionalism: promptness, attention to detail, organization
• Knowledge of AWS, including VPC, EC2, Route 53, S3, EKS, Cloudfront, and RDS (Aurora)
• US Citizen required

Responsibilities

• Manage environments from build out through production operation
• Assist in developing critical operational processes
• Construct and maintain deployment pipelines
• Develop and maintain strong OS and network security practices
• Develop and maintain system configurations
• Create and maintain related documentation
• Assist implementing OS hardening process for information security & compliance
• Manage Vulnerability remediation within information security & compliance guidelines
• Adhere to and improve corporate security & compliance principles, secure software delivery practices, and regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA)
• Proactively monitor system performance, health and capacity
• Participate in a 24×7 on call rotation
• Collaborate with Information Security on cloud and customer data security
• Collaborate with Customer Support on operational issues and provide solutions
• Collaborate with Software Engineering on best practices and solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GitLab for project management and CI/CD
• Enterprise SaaS: Experience in SaaS enterprise product, environment, and deployment lifecycle management
• Certifications: AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer) or other relevant cloud/DevOps certifications
• Disaster Recovery: Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery and business continuity solutions in cloud environments
• No-Code/Low-Code Expertise: Understanding of the no-code/low-code platform industry and its infrastructure requirements