Principal DevOps Engineer

Set strategy & lead initiatives: Define and drive long-term infrastructure/platform strategy aligned with business objectives and R&D needs; lead cross-org initiatives (e.g., multi-cloud strategy, disaster recovery architecture, platform modernization).

Architect for scale & resilience: Design robust, scalable, secure architectures; run architectural reviews to identify systemic issues/tech debt and optimization opportunities; define rollout strategies for high-impact changes (DB migrations, Kubernetes upgrades, network redesigns) to ensure continuity.

Elevate developer experience: Evolve internal developer platforms and tools (self-service infrastructure, golden paths/paved roads); establish IaC + GitOps standards and reusable patterns that balance productivity, safety, compliance, and cost.

Raise reliability & performance standards: Establish org-wide reliability practices (SLOs/SLIs/error budgets); drive observability/alerting strategy; reduce toil and improve MTTR through automation and self-healing; identify bottlenecks and implement efficiency improvements.

Security & compliance by design: Lead platform-wide security and compliance evolutions (zero trust, encryption in transit/at rest, regulatory compliance); strengthen controls (segmentation, secrets, access, vulnerability management) and secure the software supply chain.

Cost accountability (FinOps): Improve cost visibility and governance; identify cost optimizations across cloud, databases, and services without compromising reliability or performance.

Influence & grow talent: Coach DevOps Engineers, Senior DevOps Engineers, and Tech Leads; contribute to promotion committees; build learning paths and knowledge-sharing for the infrastructure community.

Incident leadership: Provide escalation support for complex incidents; lead post-incident reviews and drive improvements to incident response processes and tooling.