Principal DevOps Engineer

INNERGY is transforming the woodworking industry with purpose built, cloud based ERP software designed exclusively for custom manufacturers. They are seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to drive cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational excellence across their growing portfolio of products and services.

Responsibilities:

• Own design, provisioning, and evolution of INNERGY’s Azure cloud infrastructure
• Drive infrastructure-as-code standards across all environments
• Optimize for cost, performance, and fault tolerance
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable software delivery
• Standardize deployment patterns across INNERGY's product suite
• Support containerization and orchestration initiatives using Docker and Kubernetes
• Reduce toil through automation and self-service tooling
• Define and own SLO/SLA targets for production systems
• Establish observability standards: metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Own disaster recovery strategy and ensure systems meet recovery objectives
• Lead incident response process, including runbooks, postmortems, on-call structure
• Coordinate with global counterparts for follow-the-sun coverage and round-the-clock reliability
• Harden infrastructure and automate security controls
• Support audit and compliance requirements
• Partner with IT and Security on vulnerability management and access controls
• Set DevOps practice standards across engineering
• Mentor engineers on platform and infrastructure topics
• Contribute to architecture reviews and strategic planning
• Drive build vs. buy decisions for tooling and platform investments
• Align practices and maintain continuity with DevOps and IT counterparts across INNERGY's global regions

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years software engineering experience; 6+ in DevOps, SRE, or platform roles
• Cloud infrastructure expertise in production SaaS environments
• Kubernetes in production ownership, not just familiarity
• Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI
• Terraform or equivalent IaC at scale
• Strong scripting in Python, Go, or Bash
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or New Relic
• Solid understanding of networking, security, system architecture, and high availability design
• Software engineering background sufficient to understand, review, and contribute to development efforts
• Applies AI-first approaches to tooling, automation, and problem-solving
• Track record owning reliability: SLO definition, incident management, postmortem culture
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction without formal authority
• Proficiency with GitHub for source control, collaboration, and CI/CD workflows
• Multi-cloud or large-scale cloud migration and infrastructure modernization experience
• Deep experience running production workloads in Microsoft Azure
• Familiarity with .NET application environments
• Background in manufacturing, ERP, or industrial software environments
• Compliance posture ownership experience, including SOC 2 or similar security frameworks
• Background in high-growth SaaS or PE-backed environments
• Experience working across distributed, global teams and time zones
• Proficiency with Jira