Principal DevOps Engineer

Schneider Electric is a company dedicated to building a more sustainable future through innovative solutions. They are seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead their DevOps team in enhancing their cloud infrastructure and software delivery practices.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of EV Connect’s cloud infrastructure, DevOps platform, and software delivery practices
• Build and improve reusable developer platform capabilities, including CI/CD workflows, Terraform modules, Helm charts, Kubernetes deployment patterns, GitOps workflows, and infrastructure automation
• Develop standardized workflows and paved paths that help engineering teams build, deploy, observe, and operate services safely and independently
• Improve release reliability by reducing manual coordination, strengthening automated validation, improving deployment guardrails, and increasing production visibility
• Partner with Engineering, QA, Product, Security, and Architecture teams to improve deployment safety, release confidence, and developer velocity
• Drive improvements to Kubernetes-based deployment strategies, including canary deployments, rollback patterns, release orchestration, and production readiness practices
• Provide technical leadership for AWS cloud architecture, EKS, networking, IAM, observability, infrastructure automation, and operational resiliency
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, incident response, and post-incident follow-up practices
• Embed security, compliance, and governance into DevOps workflows, including vulnerability scanning, secrets management, IAM/RBAC, policy enforcement, and secure cloud configuration
• Identify operational gaps and lead initiatives that improve scalability, reliability, security, cost efficiency, and maintainability
• Mentor senior engineers and provide technical guidance across cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure best practices
• Help establish standards and guardrails that allow engineering teams to own their services while maintaining platform consistency and operational control

Requirements:

• Deep hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, preferably AWS EKS, including production operations, ingress, autoscaling, networking, deployments, and troubleshooting
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools
• Strong CI/CD experience using tools such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar platforms
• Experience building reusable DevOps or platform engineering capabilities such as deployment templates, shared pipelines, Terraform modules, Helm charts, or self-service workflows
• Experience supporting high-availability, customer-facing SaaS platforms
• Strong understanding of observability practices, including logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, SLOs, and incident response
• Experience improving release reliability through automation, deployment standards, health checks, rollback patterns, and operational guardrails
• Experience integrating security into DevOps workflows, including vulnerability management, container scanning, secrets management, IAM, and cloud security controls
• Strong scripting or programming experience using tools such as Python, Bash, YAML, or similar
• Ability to lead technical design discussions, influence architecture decisions, and guide engineering teams toward scalable and maintainable solutions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related roles
• Experience working in a platform engineering or internal developer platform environment
• Experience helping engineering teams adopt standardized CI/CD, infrastructure automation, GitOps, Kubernetes, or self-service deployment capabilities
• Experience defining or implementing paved paths, service templates, deployment standards, or internal developer workflows
• Experience improving release reliability, deployment automation, operational maturity, or developer productivity
• Experience with incident response, production support, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement practices
• Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, QA, Product, Security, Architecture, and Operations teams
• Comfortable operating as a hands-on technical leader while also mentoring others and influencing broader engineering practices
• AWS certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, or AWS Security Specialty
• Experience with GitOps, ArgoCD, Helm, Istio, Flagger, Argo Rollouts, or progressive delivery practices
• Experience with SOC 2, PCI, ISO 27001, NIST, or other compliance-driven environments
• Experience with disaster recovery, multi-region architecture, backup/restore strategies, and resiliency testing
• Experience improving DORA metrics, deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR, or other software delivery metrics
• Experience with cloud cost optimization, tagging strategies, forecasting, and financial governance
• EV industry experience with station integration or open protocols like OCPP, OCPI, or OpenADR