Principal DevOps Engineer
Core
Drive initiatives to implement and enforce best practices for data streaming, processing, analytics, and monitoring infrastructure.
Role type
Principal DevOps Engineer (SRE)
Builds
Cloud-native data services, Kubernetes-based platforms, and automated CI/CD pipelines
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure & Data Engineering
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), Terraform, CI/CD (Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions), Python, AWS/GCP data services, SRE principles, observability, cost optimization
Preferred skills
Data lake architectures, event-driven architectures, workflow orchestration (Airflow/Composer), service mesh (Istio), GitOps
Technologies
Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine, Terraform, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Enterprise Actions, AWS Kinesis, AWS Glue, Google Dataflow, Google Pub/Sub, BigQuery, BigTable, Apache Airflow, Google Cloud Composer, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch
Responsibilities
Deploy and manage services on Kubernetes-based platforms; Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform; Maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines; Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues; Implement SRE practices to improve reliability; Analyze and optimize cloud costs; Ensure compliance with security policies; Drive adoption of company standards and influence data teams; Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve development workflows
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence