Principal DevOps Engineer
$150,000–$230,000 year
On-siteRaleigh, North Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Lead the founding of a new AI-driven platform for life sciences safety and regulatory development, influencing the growth of the codebase and engineering organization from the ground up. Implement core DevOps practices including Infrastructure as Code, continuous integration, and automated deployments to build robust CI/CD workflows. Provision, manage, and scale infrastructure using Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes while driving architectural design and integration solutions across the team. Proactively improve system reliability, availability, and performance to minimize operational risk, with a focus on mentoring team capabilities and establishing strong engineering discipline.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps roles, emphasizing tooling, automation, and distributed systems
- Proven track record as a strong mentor dedicated to developing team capabilities
- Extensive experience designing and programming applications in AWS
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration tools (Ansible, Terraform)
- Deep expertise with containerization, serverless architectures, and orchestrators (Kubernetes, OpenShift)
- Proficient in Python, as well as statically typed languages like Java, Scala, or Go
- Hands-on experience setting up and managing CI pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, Codefresh)
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability frameworks to track system health and performance
- Strong technical writing and presentation skills, with experience in proposals, estimation, and documentation
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with SQL, data modeling, and design
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