Principal DevOps Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the platform architecture and technical roadmap concerning infrastructure, deployment, observability, and the AI/ML platform.

• Establish engineering standards, design patterns, and optimal pathways for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), and AI tooling.

• Foster adoption through reference implementations and architecture evaluations.

• Manage cloud infrastructure as code using Terraform, which includes reusable modules, remote state management, peer-reviewed pull requests, drift detection, and automated plan/apply processes in CI/CD.

• Implement policy-as-code for security and cost management guardrails.

• Design and deploy AWS infrastructure across development, UAT, staging, and production environments.

• Construct and maintain CI/CD pipelines for large-scale AWS applications.

• Oversee release management, including rollback strategies, blue/green deployments, canary deployments, and release gates.

• Package and execute containerized workloads utilizing Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).

• Lead the SLI/SLO/SLA program along with observability initiatives using OpenTelemetry.

• Minimize Mean Time To Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time To Recover (MTTR), conduct blameless post-incident reviews, and participate in on-call duties.

• Provision and manage the AI/ML platform utilizing Anthropic Claude via AWS Bedrock and internal MCP services.

• Develop LLMOps practices encompassing prompt versioning, evaluation pipelines, token cost attribution, guardrails, and agent-action audit logging.

• Enforce the protection of PHI data boundaries to BAA-covered providers.

• Operate and demonstrate controls for SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA compliance.

• Manage secrets, ensure supply-chain security, maintain Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and conduct image/dependency scanning, along with FinOps responsibilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or a related field, or a comparable combination of technical education and professional experience.

• Over 10 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or Platform Engineering, including time spent at a senior individual contributor or architect level (Staff, Principal, or Architect).

• Established technical authority across teams without direct management responsibilities.

• Proven track record of driving the adoption of new practices or platforms across multiple teams.

• Proficient in Terraform, including the use of reusable modules, remote state management, and CI/CD change management.

• Experience in building and operating CI/CD pipelines for large-scale applications hosted on AWS.

• Familiarity with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, or AWS-native CI/CD solutions.

• Experience managing containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Skills in monitoring and troubleshooting with cloud-native tools and OpenTelemetry.

• Competence in Linux system administration, Unix scripting, and automation techniques.

• Experience in environments that require HIPAA, HITECH, HITRUST, PHI, PII, or PCI DSS compliance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work flexibility.

• Engaging hands-on individual-contributor role.

• Participation in on-call rotation.

• Opportunity for professional influence through architecture and technical expertise.