PrincipalDevOpsEngineer

**ABOUT THE POSITION** As a Principal DevOps Developer on our Developer Experience Team, you will serve as a technical authority and thought leader for our DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud platform capabilities. You will define and drive the evolution of our infrastructure-as-code (IaC), deployment frameworks, observability platforms, and DevOps best practices across the organization. You’ll work closely with senior engineers, security, and business stakeholders to design scalable, secure, and cost‑efficient cloud solutions. This role focuses on technical strategy, complex problem solving, and organizational enablement, while mentoring engineers and influencing engineering standards across teams. **HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE** * Excellent communication skills, the ability to converse with key stakeholders, understand their needs and describe those needs as work items. * Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of CI/CD pipelines and deployment platforms for cloud-native services and microservices. * Define and own infrastructure-as-code standards, patterns, and reusable modules using tools such as Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation, and cloud SDKs. * Drive DevOps and platform engineering best practices across development teams (build, test, deploy, release, rollback). * Serve as a technical consultant to development, infrastructure, and security teams on cloud architecture, reliability, performance, and scalability. * Establish and evolve observability standards (metrics, logs, tracing) to improve system reliability, performance, and diagnostics. * Champion DevSecOps practices, ensuring security-by-design, policy-as-code, and compliance across pipelines and infrastructure. * Identify systemic issues, lead root-cause analysis of complex production incidents, and define long-term corrective actions. * Evaluate new tools, technologies, and cloud services; make recommendations aligned to business and engineering goals. * Mentor senior and junior engineers; raise the ove