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Principal DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Wed, Sep 16, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Owning the reliability, security, and evolution of production and staging infrastructure, the full-time remote Principal DevOps Engineer will manage AWS accounts, Kubernetes clusters, CI pipelines, and internal DevOps tooling while mentoring a Site Reliability Engineer.

Key responsibilities
  • Oversee the management and maintenance of EKS clusters and Terraform infrastructure, ensuring minimal downtime and eliminating drift
  • Lead incident response efforts, managing the observability stack and disaster recovery posture
  • Provision infrastructure for new services and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support development teams
Required qualifications
  • 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, with 2+ years as lead owner of a production Kubernetes platform
  • Expertise in AWS EKS, Terraform, and GitOps with Argo CD and GitLab CI
  • Strong experience with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
  • Proficiency in Go and Linux/Bash, with familiarity in PHP, Python, and TypeScript
  • Knowledge of identity management and security best practices, including HashiCorp Vault

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