Principal DevOps Engineer

What you'll do

• Design, build, and operate production-grade CI/CD pipelines enabling multiple developers to deploy concurrently to production multiple times daily with zero-downtime
• Implement and optimize deployment strategies including canary releases, blue/green deployments, rolling updates, incremental rollouts, and feature flag-gated releases
• Build self-service deployment tooling with safety guardrails, automated rollback triggers, and compliance gates
• Establish deployment observability with real-time canary analysis, automated health scoring, and progressive delivery metrics integrated with Grafana, Prometheus, and Honeycomb
• Champion CI/CD workflows using GitLab CI/CD, Helm charts, and Terraform for version-controlled, auditable, and reproducible deployments
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, establish error budgets balancing velocity with reliability
• Lead incident response processes including on-call rotations, runbook development, blameless postmortems, and incident command
• Design and implement observability stacks leveraging Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Honeycomb
• Identify and eliminate reliability risks through chaos engineering, load testing, capacity planning, and failure mode analysis
• Reduce operational toil through automation, self-healing infrastructure, and intelligent alerting to minimize MTTD and MTTR
• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code best practices
• Design and operate Kafka-based event streaming infrastructure for real-time marketing and analytics workloads
• Ensure robust networking including DNS management, service mesh, load balancing, TCP/IP optimization, routing policies, and VPC architecture
• Manage containerization strategy using Docker including image builds, vulnerability scanning, registry management, and runtime security
• Support data infrastructure operations across Snowflake, MySQL, and other databases
• Embed compliance controls into CI/CD pipelines ensuring GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2 enforcement
• Implement audit trails, change management controls, and deployment approval workflows
• Collaborate with Security and Legal teams on compliance obligations
• Maintain awareness of evolving privacy regulations and adapt infrastructure accordingly
• Serve as a technical leader and DevOps disruptor introducing modern practices to improve developer velocity and operational safety
• Influence software architecture decisions to simplify and streamline operational management
• Communicate technical strategies to engineering leadership and cross-functional teams
• Develop reference architectures, internal standards, and golden path templates
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
• Expert-level Kubernetes knowledge including cluster administration, Helm chart authoring, custom controllers/operators, network policies, RBAC, and multi-cluster management on AWS EKS
• Deep expertise in CI/CD pipeline architecture and advanced deployment strategies (canary, blue/green, progressive delivery, feature flag integration) at scale
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform including module design, state management, and multi-environment orchestration
• Expert knowledge of Docker containerization including multi-stage builds, security hardening, image optimization, and container runtime management
• Production experience with Apache Kafka including cluster management, topic design, consumer group strategies, and operational monitoring
• Strong networking fundamentals: DNS (Route 53, internal DNS), TCP/IP, routing, API Gateway, load balancing (ALB/NLB), service mesh, VPC peering, transit gateways, and network troubleshooting
• Extensive AWS experience spanning EKS, EC2, SQS, DynamoDB, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and related services in production environments
• Hands-on experience with observability platforms: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Honeycomb
• Working familiarity with Node.js, React, Python, Java, and Ruby
• Experience operating within regulated environments with knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2, and compliance automation
• Proven ability to influence engineering culture and communicate complex technical strategies clearly
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines including advanced features such as parent-child pipelines, dynamic environments, and security scanning integration

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Benefits