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PrincipalDevOpsEngineer
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“Principal DevOps Engineer. Skills: Cloud infrastructure, DevOps strategy, Reliability engineering, CI/CD. Define technical direction of cloud infrastructure. Drive DevOps strategy”
What You'll Achieve.
Improve engineering velocity
Industry & Context.
Risk mitigation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering, Expert-level knowledge of AWS services, Expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Deep experience in reliability engineering, Proven track record of designing and scaling CI/CD systems, Ability to define multi-year infrastructure roadmaps, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Nice to Have
Experience mentoring and guiding senior/staff engineers
What You'll Do.
Define technical direction of cloud infrastructure
Drive DevOps strategy
Ensure operational maturity
Define long-term cloud architecture strategy
Define infrastructure architecture strategy
Plan AWS platform evolution
Establish reliability engineering standards
Enforce reliability engineering standards
Establish observability standards
Enforce observability standards
Establish incident management standards
Enforce incident management standards
Establish SRE practices
Enforce SRE practices
Lead platform strategy
Lead infrastructure-as-code strategy
Lead self-service provisioning strategy
Identify systemic risks
Drive mitigation strategies
Partner with engineering teams
Partner with product teams
Partner with leadership teams
Translate business needs
Own developer experience roadmap
Evolve developer experience roadmap
Reduce operational friction
Improve engineering velocity
Mentor senior engineers
Mentor staff engineers
Promote best practices in architecture
Promote best practices in documentation
Promote best practices in operational excellence
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Engineering teams; Product teams; Leadership teams
Communication Scope
Influencing stakeholders
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
## Accountabilities In this role, you will define and drive the technical direction of cloud infrastructure and DevOps strategy, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational maturity across engineering teams. Define the long-term cloud and infrastructure architecture strategy, including AWS platform evolution, scalability planning, and risk mitigation. Establish and enforce organization-wide standards for reliability engineering, observability, incident management, and SRE practices (SLOs/SLIs). Lead DevOps and platform strategy for CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and self-service provisioning frameworks. Identify systemic risks across infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and cloud operations, and proactively drive mitigation strategies. Partner with engineering, product, and leadership teams to translate business needs into scalable platform solutions. Own and evolve the developer experience roadmap to reduce operational friction and improve engineering velocity. Mentor senior and staff engineers, promoting best practices in architecture, documentation, and operational excellence. Requirements: This role requires a seasoned infrastructure leader with deep cloud expertise, strong architectural judgment, and the ability to influence engineering direction at scale. 8+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering with significant technical leadership impact. Expert-level knowledge of AWS services, including compute, networking, storage, and security architecture. Strong expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, including module design and platform-level governance. Deep experience in reliability engineering, including SLO/SLI frameworks, observability systems, and incident lifecycle management. Proven track record of designing and scaling CI/CD systems and DevOps practices across large engineering organizations. Ability to define multi-year infrastructure roadmaps aligned with business and technical priorities. S
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