Principal DevOps Engineer
- DevOps & Cloud, DevOps
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Permanent
$175K-$210K per annum
Benefits: Benefits Bonus
One of my clients is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to drive the strategy, design, and delivery of secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure. This role combines hands-on technical expertise with leadership, overseeing a DevOps team while solving meaningful challenges in deployment, monitoring, automation, and operationalization of large-scale systems.
Unfortunately, this role does not offer sponsorships. No C2C/3rd Party Agencies.
Details:
- Permanent, Full-Time Position
- Salary: $180,000 - $210,000 Bonus Benefits
- Hybrid (2 Days per Week) - Boston, MA
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and management of scalable and secure infrastructure (cloud and on-premise).
- Build, mentor, and guide a high-performing DevOps team; provide technical leadership and career development.
- Drive DevOps strategy, tooling, and automation across development, testing, and production environments.
- Architect, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines
- Implement and enforce Infrastructure as Code
- Monitor and improve systems performance, availability, and reliability; implement observability best practices (metrics, logs, alerts).
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for outages or performance issues.
- Ensure security best practices and compliance across infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD workflows
- Collaborate with development, QA, operations, security, and product teams to streamline deployments and deliver end-to-end solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 10 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Systems Administration.
- 2 years in a leadership role (team lead, manager, or principal-level).
- Strong expertise in AWS
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Python, Bash)
- Expertise with CI/CD frameworks and automation tooling
- Solid understanding of networking, security, and observability tools
Oscar Associates Limited (US) is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
