Principal DevOps Engineer

The client is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to define and govern enterprise DevOps and Platform Engineering strategies across multiple business units. The role provides technical leadership for cloud-native platforms, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automation, observability, and security integration to improve software delivery, reliability, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise DevOps Leadership- Define and execute the enterprise DevOps and Platform Engineering strategy aligned with business and technology objectives
• Lead technical initiatives spanning multiple projects, portfolios, and Lines of Business (LOBs)
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture to define platform standards, reusable architectures, and technology roadmaps
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices across development, operations, and infrastructure teams
• Provide technical leadership during enterprise transformation initiatives
• Platform Engineering- Design and implement scalable, highly available, and self-service DevOps platforms
• Develop reusable platform capabilities that accelerate application onboarding
• Standardize CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and release automation
• Improve developer experience through automation and self-service capabilities
• Establish reusable platform templates, golden paths, and engineering standards
• DevOps Automation- Design enterprise CI/CD frameworks supporting multiple application technologies
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Standardize configuration management and deployment automation
• Drive continuous improvement through automation and operational efficiency
• Reduce manual operational activities through scripting and orchestration
• Cloud Engineering- Architect cloud-native deployment patterns across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments
• Implement container platforms and Kubernetes-based solutions
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for availability, scalability, performance, and cost
• Establish enterprise landing zones and cloud governance standards
• Security & Compliance- Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines using DevSecOps practices
• Ensure platforms comply with enterprise security, regulatory, and governance requirements
• Implement automated security scanning, vulnerability management, secrets management, and policy enforcement
• Collaborate with Security teams to improve compliance automation
• Reliability & Operations- Design highly available and resilient deployment architectures
• Improve system observability through logging, monitoring, alerting, and tracing
• Drive operational excellence using Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles
• Define platform SLAs, SLOs, and operational metrics
• Architecture & Governance- Establish DevOps design patterns, engineering standards, and best practices
• Review solution architectures for scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability
• Mentor senior engineers and provide technical guidance across engineering teams
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend enterprise adoption

Requirements:

• 12+ years of experience in Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, or Platform Engineering
• 7+ years designing and implementing enterprise DevOps platforms
• 5+ years leading enterprise-wide DevOps or Platform Engineering initiatives
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
• Experience designing and implementing Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms
• Proven experience implementing enterprise CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps practices
• Strong background in automation, cloud architecture, and platform modernization
• Experience mentoring engineering teams and influencing technical direction across multiple organizations
• Programmatically create infrastructure in AWS, leveraging Autoscaling Groups, Security Groups, Route53, S3, and IAM
• Experience with Git
• Build data infrastructure related to end-to-end data factory platform using Terraform and related technologies