Senior Principal DevOps Engineer

ABC Fitness

Senior Principal DevOps Engineer defining automation strategy for AWS at ABC Fitness. Leading initiatives for developer productivity and AI-enabled platform capabilities in a collaborative environment.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudKubernetesMicroservicesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and drive the technical strategy for automation and developer experience on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Champion developer self-service by building and driving adoption of paved-road platform capabilities, reusable templates, and opinionated automation while maintaining security and governance
Operate with a high degree of autonomy, driving platform initiatives end-to-end while collaborating effectively across engineering teams
Promote inner source practices by creating shared platform components, reference implementations, and contribution models that enable development teams to build on common foundations
Design extensible platform services and automation patterns that scale with a growing enterprise and evolving AI-assisted engineering use cases
Lead the adoption and technical direction of AI-enabled developer platform capabilities, including self-service workflows, intelligent automation, and safe adoption of generative AI across the software development lifecycle
Establish platform capabilities and feedback loops that systematically identify and reduce patterns of instability across environments
Drive measurable improvements in developer productivity, software delivery performance, and system reliability across the organization
Collaborate with management and team leads (Product Owners, Architects, DBAs, Development, Analysts) to create solutions and document direction in an agile development environment
Provide guidance for development staff on cloud-native and secure coding best practices
Participate as an escalation contact in an on-call rotation providing support for production outages and incidents.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Deep Amazon Web Services (AWS) expertise
Strong expertise in containerized service infrastructure based on Kubernetes (EKS)
Expertise with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation, etc.)
Experience building and evolving modern Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines (GitHub Actions, etc.)
Experience operating and improving highly available, large-scale production environments
Experience deploying, managing, and monitoring stateless microservices and serverless solutions
Experience defining reusable golden paths, shared services, and platform standards, and driving their adoption across engineering teams
Experience evaluating and integrating AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows to improve developer productivity, software quality, and operational efficiency
Experience influencing technical direction and driving platform adoption across multiple teams or business units
Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy, identifying high-impact problems and driving them to resolution
Track record of pragmatic problem solving, strong engineering judgement, and excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
Ability to balance business outcomes with platform goals and standards; understanding that perfection is often the enemy of progress
Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams

Benefits

Comp & perks

Time Off – with our open PTO policy, we offer flexibility in how and when you take PTO!
Days of Disconnect – once a quarter, we take a collective breather and enjoy a day off together around the globe. #oneteam
Parental & Pawternity Leave – we offer leave for when your family grows by two feet or four paws!
Best Life Perk – we are committed to meeting you wherever you are in your fitness journey with a quarterly reimbursement
Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
EAP – we get you help when you need it. Period.
Premium Calm App – enjoy tranquility with a Calm App subscription for you and up to 4 dependents over the age of 16
And more! – so many benefits we couldn’t even fit them all here!

ATS Keywords

✓ Tailor your resume

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Kubernetes (EKS)Infrastructure as CodeTerraformHelmCloudFormationContinuous IntegrationContinuous Delivery (CI/CD)GitHub Actionsmicroservices

Soft Skills

problem solvingengineering judgementwritten communicationinterpersonal communicationcollaborationautonomyinfluenceadaptabilityleadershipagile development