Principal DevOps Engineer

Job summary

The Principal DevOps Engineer owns and evolves AWS infrastructure for consumer products, balancing security, reliability, performance, and cost. The role builds Terraform-managed infrastructure and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with integrated security controls, defines SRE practices using SLOs and CloudWatch observability, and leads production incident response. It also sets engineering standards, mentors teams, and guides platform strategy and cross-functional infrastructure projects.

Benefits

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of DevOps or SRE experience, including at least 5 years operating production workloads at scale in AWS.
• Hands-on AWS experience with EC2, ECS, ECR, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, EKS, and CloudFront.
• Deep Terraform expertise, including modular, reusable, well-tested infrastructure code.
• Strong GitHub Actions experience building pipelines as code; Jenkins experience is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with GuardDuty, Security Hub, AWS Config, service control policies, and related cloud security practices.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Go, or Bash.
• Linux system administration and Docker container management experience.
• Experience defining SLOs, designing observability, and improving reliability through post-mortems.
• Familiarity with Windows and macOS code compilation, code signing, and software supply chain security.
• Daily use of AI coding assistants such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot.
• Ability to influence architecture across teams and make technical decisions amid ambiguity.
• Strong communication and documentation skills, including architecture proposals, design reviews, and actionable runbooks.
• Experience mentoring engineering teams and communicating platform strategy and investment decisions to executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Build and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with security scanning, policy enforcement, and quality gates.
• Enforce cloud security practices, identify misconfigurations, and support vulnerability management and incident response.
• Define SLOs, improve observability and alerting, and lead blameless post-mortems.
• Participate in on-call rotations and manage production incidents from detection through follow-up.
• Maintain build and release environments and develop automation and test tooling for client applications.
• Evaluate DevOps technologies through proof-of-concept testing.
• Maintain actionable documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
• Set engineering standards, conduct architecture and code reviews, and mentor engineers.
• Advise executive leadership on platform strategy, risk, and infrastructure investment.
• Lead cross-functional infrastructure projects from scoping through delivery.

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