Principal DevOps Engineer

About the Role

As Principal DevOps Engineer, you are the architect of our engineering velocity. You won’t simply

manage servers — you will design the foundation on which our entire product ecosystem runs. Your

mission is to build a “Golden Path” for developers: a seamless, automated, high\-performance platform

that turns complex infrastructure into a self\-service utility.

You will lead how we ship software, how we scale our global Kubernetes footprint, and how we maintain

a world\-class security and cost posture — against a weekly release cadence.

Key Responsibilities

– Platform orchestration. Architect and operate production\-grade Kubernetes clusters with

Terraform and Terragrunt, owning the full lifecycle of our compute environments.

– Release strategy. Design and implement advanced deployment patterns — Blue/Green, Canary,

feature flags — to deliver zero\-downtime releases across a microservices architecture.

– Infrastructure as Code. Standardize our multi\-cloud and hybrid infrastructure. If it isn’t in code, it

doesn’t exist — our IaC must be modular, tested, and scalable.

– CI/CD leadership. Optimize GitHub Actions and GitLab CI pipelines to cut build times and tighten

feedback loops, and own the code\-governance strategy across branch protection and automated

compliance.

– Performance \& observability. Partner with Performance Engineering to embed automated

benchmarking into the pipeline and build comprehensive telemetry with Prometheus, Grafana, and

ELK/Datadog.

– FinOps \& efficiency. Monitor and optimize infrastructure spend, architecting solutions that are

both high\-performing and cost\-efficient.

– Mentorship. Act as a force multiplier — set the technical standards for the DevOps team and guide

software engineering squads.

What We’re Looking For

– Orchestration. Deep, under\-the\-hood expertise in Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS) and service meshes

(Istio/Linkerd).

– Provisioning. Expert\-level mastery of Terraform; experience with Pulumi or Crossplane is a plus.

– Automation. Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for building custom platform tooling.

– CI/CD. Advanced knowledge of GitHub Enterprise — Actions, Runners, and API\-driven automation.

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– Cloud. Strong experience with AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP.

– Security. Hands\-on DevSecOps practice — secret management with Vault, image scanning, and

policy enforcement via OPA/Kyverno.

What Success Looks Like

Month 1 You’ve audited our Terraform modules and set a roadmap for a unified, multi\-

region Kubernetes deployment strategy.

Month 3 You’ve cut time\-to\-production for new services by 40% through standardized

CI/CD templates and self\-service infra provisioning.

Month 6 The platform is a competitive advantage: developers deploy with confidence,

infrastructure costs are optimized, and reliability (SLAs) is at an all\-time high.