Progress SoftwareRemote
Principal DevOps Engineer
United States of America
Full Time
5 hours ago
$164,000 - $185,000 USD
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
CI/CD toolsTeamCityJenkinsGitHub ActionsBuild systemsGradleMavenAntCloud platformsAWSAzureGCPContainerizationDockerKubernetesInfrastructure-as-codeTerraformAnsibleScriptingPythonBashPowerShellJavaSecrets managementAkeylessVaultArtifact repositoriesArtifactoryNexusVeracodePolarisBlackDuckSonarQubeSecurity practicesSASTDependency scanningMonitoringLoggingAlertingAIGitHubSDLCCI/CD
About this role
Progress Software is a trusted provider of software that enables customers to develop, deploy, and manage AI-powered applications. They are seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead the design and scaling of CI/CD platforms while driving architectural decisions and modern DevOps practices across multiple product teams.
Responsibilities:
- Define and drive the DevOps platform strategy across CI/CD, build systems, and release engineering
- Architect scalable and resilient pipelines using tools like TeamCity, Jenkins, or similar
- Establish standards for pipeline design, modularity, and reusability
- Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for multiple product lines
- Drive adoption of automation-first practices across build, test, and release workflows
- Optimize build performance, reliability, and scalability
- Integrate security practices (SAST, secrets management, dependency scanning) into pipelines
- Define and enforce best practices for secure software delivery
- Ensure alignment with frameworks such as SAMM, SOC2, etc
- Lead implementation of infrastructure-as-code using tools like:
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Ansible
- Manage and optimize cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Improve developer experience by reducing build times and simplifying workflows
- Introduce self-service capabilities for engineering teams
- Drive adoption of modern tooling and best practices
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for CI/CD systems
- Ensure high availability and performance of DevOps platforms
- Act as a technical leader and mentor for DevOps and engineering teams
- Collaborate with architects and senior engineers to drive platform decisions
- Influence cross-team adoption of standards and best practices
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Build Engineering, or Platform Engineering
- Deep expertise in CI/CD tools (TeamCity, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.)
- Deep expertise in Build systems (Gradle, Maven, Ant)
- Strong experience with Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Strong experience with Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Proficiency in scripting/programming: Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Java
- Secrets management (Akeyless, Vault)
- Artifact repositories (Artifactory, Nexus)
- Security tools (Veracode, Polaris, BlackDuckSonarQube)
- Large-scale enterprise environments
- Multi-product CI/CD ecosystems
- Applied use prompt engineering to effectively leverage AI across the SDLC