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Principal DevOps/Platform Engineer

Christiansburg, Virginia💼 Full-time💰 $145,600–$145,600🗓 2026-08-13 → 2026-09-23

Core

Drive AI-enabled DevOps by integrating Generative AI tools into the SDLC and support scalable AI-enabled platform capabilities.

Role type

Principal DevOps/Platform Engineer

Builds

Cloud-based application environments, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and observability systems.

Domain

Telecommunications / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes (EKS, GKE), Cloud Architecture (AWS, GCP), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD & GitOps, SRE practices, Observability (Dynatrace, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), Generative AI integration, Performance Engineering, Security Validation

Preferred skills

Multi-cluster and multi-tenant architecture design, High availability and multi-region failover strategies, Root-cause analysis, Mentorship

Technologies

AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Dynatrace, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, GitOps

Responsibilities

Integrate Generative AI tools for code generation, testing, and incident analysis; Design and implement cloud-based application environments; Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks; Execute load, performance, reliability, and regression testing strategies; Define service reliability metrics (SLOs, SLIs) and incident response procedures; Conduct root-cause analysis of production defects; Implement security and compliance validation mechanisms; Mentor junior engineers on test automation and cloud testing methodologies.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic input and mentorship

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