Principal DevOps Engineer

This role focuses on facilitating team self-service capabilities through infrastructure platform engineering, enabling development teams to author their own infrastructure while following established best practices and guardrails.

•    Design and implement sophisticated release infrastructure enabling rapid, reliable deployments across multiple environments and regions
•    Build enterprise-grade GitHub CI/CD pipelines supporting independent microservice deployments with advanced deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, progressive rollouts)
•    Establish automated release orchestration across the microservices ecosystem with dependency management and rollback capabilities
•    Create pipeline-as-code solutions enabling teams to define, version, and manage their own deployment pipelines
•    Build observability-driven deployment systems with automated rollback triggers based on SLI/SLO violations
•    Architect and implement comprehensive Terraform automation for consistent environment provisioning and management
•    Implement policy-as-code and compliance automation to ensure infrastructure authored by teams meets organizational standards
•    Design and implement comprehensive DevOps metrics frameworks measuring deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery (DORA metrics)
•    Provide technical mentorship and training to help teams adopt platform engineering and infrastructure-as-code practices
•    Champion DevOps culture transformation and establish engineering best practices across the development organization
 

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps/Platform Engineering with 5+ years leading release infrastructure and platform enablement initiatives
• Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience with GitHub Enterprise for enterprise-scale development workflows and repository management.
• At least 2 years of programming experience in relevant languages to facilitate automation, scripting, and platform development.
• At least 3+ years of experience with AWS Cloud.
• Proven expertise in building self-service infrastructure platforms that enable developer autonomy while maintaining operational excellence.
• Track record of technical mentorship and guiding engineering teams through DevOps transformation.
• Strong experience building and enforcing DevOps metrics and KPIs to drive organizational improvement and platform optimization
• Expert-level experience designing enterprise CI/CD platforms supporting large-scale microservices ecosystems
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Enterprise and Azure DevOps for enterprise-scale development workflows
• Expert-level Terraform proficiency for building reusable infrastructure modules, state management, and automation at scale
• Experience with developer platform tools like Backstage for service catalogs and developer portals (strong plus)
• Experience with Flyway for database migration and schema version control
• Proven experience implementing DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) and other DevOps performance indicators.
• Strong communication skills for technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration
• Proven ability to champion DevOps culture transformation and establish engineering best practices

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