Principal DevOps Engineer

Principal DevOps Engineer As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing software delivery velocity, which is a key competitive advantage in the market.

This position requires you to be a technical lead and subject matter expert (SME) for the Enterprise DevSecOps Engineering team.

You will be responsible for driving the technical roadmap and deliverables, while collaborating closely with product and engineering organizations to innovate rapidly while ensuring quality and security in all processes.

Your responsibilities will include:Driving engineering solutions that align with the company’s mission.Ensuring operational excellence for connected services that operate 24/7.Collecting technical requirements from stakeholders to build a comprehensive CI/CD strategy.Providing product and technical leadership.Setting goals that deliver business value.Maintaining high technical standards for your team.Working with engineering leads to define and institutionalize best DevOps practices across product engineering teams.Partnering with business and technology stakeholders to create a strategic Blueprint that outlines a three-year business and technology roadmap for the products.Developing standards and practices for deployments.Creating reusable interfaces.Applying continuous improvement models to deployment and tooling.Understanding user needs and making data-driven decisions as you immerse yourself in the company’s business vision and strategy—particularly in mission-critical product areas.Driving innovation and automation to enhance developer productivity and experiences across the enterprise.Participating in strategic planning to achieve technical and business goals.Collaborating with various teams to architect and deliver optimal technical designs.

ResponsibilitiesDrive engineering solutions aligned with the mission to make software delivery velocity a key competitive advantage in the market.Drive operational excellence for the connected services that deliver 24x7x365 operations.Collect technical requirements from stakeholders across the company and help build a complete CI/CD strategy and objectives.Provide product and technical leadership, set goals that produce value for the business, and uphold high technical standards for the team.Work with the engineering lead to define, communicate, enable, and institutionalize the best DevOps practices for product engineering teams.Partner with business and technology stakeholders to construct a Blueprint that articulates a 3-year business and technology aligned target-state and roadmap for the products.Develop standards and practices for deployments and create reusable interfaces for consumers.Follow market trends and DevOps movements and apply models of continuous improvement to deployment and tooling.Understand user needs, prioritize by making data-driven decisions.Immerse yourself in the company's business vision and strategy and dive into a mission-critical product area to develop a deep understanding of the business and technology domain.Drive innovation and automation to simplify challenges and enhance developer productivity and experiences across the enterprise.Participate in strategic planning to achieve technical and business goals.Work closely with Engineers, Tech Leads, Architecture, Security, Quality Engineering, Cloud, and Change & Release Management teams to architect and deliver the best technical designs.

Requirements12 years of professional SDLC experience in a diverse set of technology disciplines and a minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience designing and implementing Enterprise CICD solutions.5+ years of hands-on experience automating cloud-based applications in AWS.Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.Must have worked across breadth and depth of the DevOps cycle – Orchestration, CICD, On-Prem & Cloud Deployment techniques for zero downtime, Feature flags, Monitoring, Security.Hands-on experience managing enterprise DevOps platforms like GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, SonarQube, Octopus Deploy, AWS resources, Testing & Security products.Decent knowledge of .Net, Angular & Python Development & Deployment constructs.Ability to learn and quickly absorb new material; strong troubleshooting skills.Strong organizational skills and adaptive capacity for rapidly changing priorities and workloads.Ability to work well independently and maintain focus in a highly dynamic work environment.Deep understanding of API design, the difference between platform design and application design, and the tooling to create modern APIs.Experience managing Dynamic Global configuration for App and environment variables.Experience with many DevOps automation capabilities and practices, such as branching strategy, CICD, IaC, everything-as-code, Kubernetes, GitOps, B/G and Canary deployment.

Nice-to-havesBuilding SCM, CI, CD solutions to make it easy for developers.Collaborate with leaders, engineers, and cross-functional teams on technical designs.Expertise in problem-solving, technical leadership, and coaching teams.Develop and maintain relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners, and direct reports.