Staff - Principal DevOps Engineer

AppGate

Staff or Principal DevOps Engineer responsible for designing and building cloud infrastructure for AI strategy. Mentoring team and making foundational cloud architecture decisions.

Posted 7/17/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $185,000 - $270,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing cloud architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation while mentoring engineers and fostering a collaborative platform team environment.

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DevOps Engineering ExperienceCI/CD Pipeline ImplementationInfrastructure as Code (IaC) with TerraformObservability Implementation with PrometheusBackend Language Proficiency (Python, Go)

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Hard Skills

Cloud ArchitectureInfrastructure AutomationCI/CD PipelinesInfrastructure as Code (IaC)ObservabilitySecurity Best PracticesMonitoring and LoggingConfiguration ManagementMLOps FoundationBackend Programming (Python, Go)

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationOwnershipTechnical DirectionPragmatism

Tools & Technologies

TerraformHelmPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryELK Stack

Industry Keywords

DevOpsPlatform EngineeringInfrastructure EngineeringSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)Production Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoGrafanaPrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build the deployment vehicle of our cloud and AI infrastructure.
Set the standards the rest of the team will build on.
Grow the surrounding engineers into a capable platform team.
Make foundational decisions — cloud architecture, IaC conventions, CI/CD, observability, on-call.
Codify decisions to scale beyond individual contributions.
Serve as DevOps mentor for engineers lacking deep expertise.
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and self-service tooling.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform and Helm.
Instrument monitoring, logging, and alerting across services and infrastructure.
Implement security best practices across infrastructure and deployment workflows.
Mentor engineers and run design reviews.
Build the MLOps foundation for AppGate's AI products.
Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, product teams and leadership.

Requirements

What you’ll need

extensive DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or SRE engineering experience with a track record of operating production systems at scale.
hands-on experience standing up infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines in a greenfield or early-stage environment.
hands-on experience implementing observability across APIs, cloud services and distributed systems using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, the ELK stack or comparable.
familiarity with implementing security best practices in infrastructure and deployment workflows.
fluency in a primary backend language (Python, Go or similar) and a strong bias toward automation, testing and reliable, maintainable systems.
a demonstrated record of growing engineers and setting technical direction.
pragmatic, rigorous and ownership-driven. You thrive in a small, fast-moving environment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Enterprise AppGate is a global cybersecurity company that delivers high-performance Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solutions for enterprises and government agencies. Its platform enforces identity-based, adaptive access policies using real-time risk scoring, AI-powered application discovery, and a direct-routed architecture designed to avoid cloud bottlenecks and scale with demanding environments. AppGate also provides professional services and cyber advisory offerings — including adversary simulation, penetration testing, and third-party access risk assessments — to help organizations implement and operationalize Zero Trust controls. Staff - Principal DevOps Engineer 🔥 1 hour ago 🏢🏡 New York City – Hybrid 💵 $185k - $270k / year ⏰ Full Time 🔴 Lead ⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Cloud Distributed Systems Grafana Prometheus Python Terraform Go Apply Now Find Hiring Managers Customize resume + cover letter Report problem ☆ Save ☑️ Mark as applied ❌ Hide 📋 Description
Design and build the deployment vehicle of our cloud and AI infrastructure.
Set the standards the rest of the team will build on.
Grow the surrounding engineers into a capable platform team.
Make foundational decisions — cloud architecture, IaC conventions, CI/CD, observability, on-call.
Codify decisions to scale beyond individual contributions.
Serve as DevOps mentor for engineers lacking deep expertise.
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and self-service tooling.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform and Helm.
Instrument monitoring, logging, and alerting across services and infrastructure.
Implement security best practices across infrastructure and deployment workflows.
Mentor engineers and run design reviews.
Build the MLOps foundation for AppGate's AI products.
Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, product teams and leadership. 🎯 Requirements
extensive DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or SRE engineering experience with a track record of operating production systems at scale.
hands-on experience standing up infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines in a greenfield or early-stage environment.
hands-on experience implementing observability across APIs, cloud services and distributed systems using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, the ELK stack or comparable.
familiarity with implementing security best practices in infrastructure and deployment workflows.
fluency in a primary backend language (Python, Go or similar) and a strong bias toward automation, testing and reliable, maintainable systems.
a demonstrated record of growing engineers and setting technical direction.
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