DevOps Principal

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership across DevOps, Infrastructure, Platform, and Development teams, driving engineering excellence and consistent technical practices.

• Define and evolve DevOps and cloud engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across projects and teams.

• Design and guide scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-efficient cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions across AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Evaluate complex technical requirements and architectural changes, assessing their impact on infrastructure, engineering effort, scalability, security, cost, technical debt, and delivery.

• Drive technical initiatives, platform improvements, and modernization efforts from concept through implementation.

• Identify common technical challenges across projects and develop reusable solutions, automation, frameworks, and platform capabilities.

• Lead technical discovery, design reviews, architecture discussions, and resolution of complex infrastructure and DevOps problems.

• Evaluate technologies and architectural approaches, document trade-offs, and provide recommendations aligned with long-term technical and business goals.

• Define and maintain standards for Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, observability, security, and operational practices.

• Drive adoption of automation, DevOps, GitOps, platform engineering, and other practices that improve engineering productivity and delivery reliability.

• Establish and evolve infrastructure and platform roadmaps in collaboration with engineering and product leadership.

• Identify opportunities for infrastructure modernization, standardization, automation, performance improvement, and cloud cost optimization.

• Provide technical guidance on cloud networking, IAM, security, secrets management, monitoring, logging, observability, and resilience.

• Define and improve high-availability, disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and resilience practices.

• Conduct technical and infrastructure reviews and ensure solutions comply with established engineering standards and security requirements.

• Act as a senior technical escalation point for complex infrastructure, cloud, deployment, performance, and reliability issues.

• Mentor Senior DevOps Engineers and other technical specialists, helping teams improve their technical capabilities and engineering practices.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership, architects, security, and product teams to align technical strategy with business and delivery objectives.

• Ensure compliance with corporate security, governance, and regulatory requirements.

What We Offer:

• Long-term career stability with a competitive salary paid in USD.

• Conditions for steady career development.

• Development supported by dedicated mentors and a variety of programs focused on expertise and innovation.

• Private medical insurance provided after successful completion of the probationary period

• A well-equipped and cozy office supports comfort and productivity across all project stages.

• Welcoming atmosphere and a friendly corporate culture.

Requirements

What we expect from you:

• Extensive practical experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Architecture, with a proven track record of technical leadership across teams or projects.

• Strong hands-on experience with at least two of clouds: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the ability to make informed technical decisions across multiple cloud platforms.

• Proven experience designing and operating production-grade cloud and hybrid-cloud environments at scale.

• Deep understanding of cloud architecture, distributed systems, microservices, networking, databases, containers, IAM, security, observability, and managed services.

• Strong experience establishing and evolving DevOps engineering standards, practices, and reusable solutions across multiple teams or projects.

• Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code and extensive Terraform experience, including reusable modules, standards, and governance.

• Strong Kubernetes and container experience, ideally including EKS, AKS, or GKE.

• Strong understanding of cloud networking, hybrid connectivity, security, IAM, secrets management, encryption, and DevSecOps.

• Extensive experience designing and improving CI/CD architectures using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy, or similar tools.

• Experience with capacity planning, resource forecasting, cloud cost optimization, performance, and reliability engineering.

• Experience designing high-availability, disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and resilience strategies.

• Strong Linux/UNIX and Windows knowledge, including practical troubleshooting experience.

• Strong scripting/programming skills in Bash, Python, PowerShell, Go, or similar languages.

• Strong Git knowledge and understanding of modern software development and delivery practices.

• Ability to evaluate technologies and technical approaches, identify long-term implications, and make pragmatic recommendations.

• Strong problem-solving skills with experience resolving complex cross-team technical issues.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Proven mentoring and coaching skills, with the ability to raise the technical capabilities of engineering teams.

• Ability to balance technical excellence with business priorities, delivery constraints, operational requirements, and cost.

• Advanced proficiency in spoken English is mandatory.

Will be a plus:

• Experience defining or leading DevOps/platform strategy across multiple projects or an organization.

• Experience establishing internal developer platforms, golden paths, reusable infrastructure components, or engineering enablement programs.

• Experience with Platform Engineering, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code governance.

• Experience with enterprise cloud landing zones and governance frameworks such as AWS Control Tower/Organizations, Azure Landing Zones/Management Groups, and GCP Organization/Folder/Project structures.

• Experience with FinOps, cloud cost modeling, and optimization programs.

• Experience with cloud migration and modernization initiatives.

• Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.

• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio.

• Experience with policy-as-code tools such as OPA, Kyverno, or Sentinel.

• Experience with observability platforms and OpenTelemetry.

• Experience defining engineering standards, reference architectures, technical roadmaps, and technology strategies.

• Experience leading technical communities, guilds, or Centers of Excellence.

• Relevant AWS, Azure, and/or GCP professional-level certifications.

• Experience conducting technical interviews and mentoring Senior/Lead engineers.