Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

Waters is developing solutions that make a meaningful impact on the world

• Waters Helps Scientists in the Fight Against Cancer
• Waters Helps Ensure The Quality & Safety of Food and Beverages
• Waters Helps Drive Innovation in Chemical Materials
• Waters Helps Scientists manufacture innovation for biodegradable plastics, safer cosmetics and latest consumer electronics
• Waters Leads the way in helping scientists find ground-breaking treatments

As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer you will work on projects critical to our Informatics business needs.

We're looking for creative and innovative engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including data processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. We encourage all our engineers to constantly add value to themselves and the business through learning and collaboration.

We are looking for smart, self-motivated person to join our truly exceptional engineering team.

This is a FTC position of 23 months.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer,

• Lead enterprise-scale cloud migration (on-prem → AWS)
• Ensure high availability during transition (no downtime pipelines)
• Own reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems
• Lead cross-team engineering efforts and define standards (SLOs, observability, incident response)
• Act as a technical authority and mentor, influencing architecture and delivery practices
• Improve developer velocity and pipeline reliability
• Build and optimize CI/CD + IaC pipelines
• Improve developer experience and delivery speed

As a team member you will:

• Participate in all team meetings and ceremonies in direct collaboration with other sites, provide input and feedback, take ownership on identified improvements
• Actively participate in learning and sharing activities either during informal or formal training and demos
• Demonstrate continuous technical improvement

Qualifications

Key Capabilities & Skills

• Strong experience in SRE / DevOps / platform engineering
• Deep expertise in AWS
• Strong experience with CI/CD systems and release automation
• Proven success leading cloud migration initiatives
• Experience with Kubernetes and microservices architectures
• Proficiency in Terraform / IaC
• Strong scripting/programming skills

Tool Skills

• Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure
• Containers & orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker
• CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Flux
• IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation
• Languages: Python, C++, PowerShell, Bash
• Observability tools: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana

We're actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We aim to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can contribute their best work and develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.

We can make reasonable adjustments to our interview process according to your needs.

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.