Principal DevOps Engineer

Ascensus

Principal DevOps Engineer overseeing application engineering/DevOps practices for a leading savings platform, providing technical leadership and evaluating innovative solutions.

Posted 7/18/2026full-timeRemote • Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in DevOps practices, including automation, CI/CD processes, and infrastructure as code. Proficient in leading technical teams and optimizing application deployment in production environments.

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DevOps EngineeringCI/CD DeploymentConfiguration ManagementContainerizationMicro-services Architecture

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Hard Skills

Bash ScriptingPython ScriptingGroovy ScriptingJenkinsDockerKubernetesAnsibleTerraformJava TechnologiesLinux Environment

Soft Skills

Technical LeadershipCollaborationProblem-SolvingInnovation

Tools & Technologies

AWS ServicesNexusApacheJBossTomcatPerforceGitLoad BalancingCachingAutomated Testing Framework

Certifications & Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Industry Keywords

Infrastructure as CodeAgileScrumTest Driven DevelopmentSOADistributed Computing

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularAnsibleApacheAWSChefDockerGroovyJavaJavaScriptJenkinsjQueryKubernetesLinuxMavenNode.jsPythonSDLCTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Oversee server builds, deployments, packaging, integration, automation and releases of our Software
Continuously collaborating with team(s) to evaluate Monitoring and Performance of the environment & build Standards and consistent practices around Infrastructure as Code
Responsible for process development, ensuring opportunity to automate scripts for software builds and deployments and lead in helping streamline the pipeline
Participate in Technology/Architecture and design discussions and required to contribute to developing the solutions architecture, designing automation templates for infrastructure provisioning, configuration & change management, and developing the detailed technical design
Lead researching on new tools/ technology solutions/processes, build consensus and plan to introduce cost justifiable technology to improve SDLC pipeline
Provide day to day technical leadership to the application engineers and be an evangelist of Devops principles to the team(s)
Continually finding ways to optimize and building out a comprehensive architecture/strategy for supporting applications in production
The scope of work includes build, machine configuration, test infrastructure and virtual machine deployment
Responsible for protecting and securing all client data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access to and/or improper transmission of information that could result in harm to a client
Supervision Lead the teams across projects, supporting by problem-solving / trouble shooting and innovating/ building solutions for infrastructure needs
Collaborate with other technology leaders across the organization (Engineering/DBA/Operations) to optimize our environments

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum of 10+ years of Hands-on experience working as a DevOps/Build/Deployment and Engineering & Operations skills
Experience with Agile/Scrum, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and related tools
Hands-on experience in production environments, both deploying and troubleshooting applications in Linux environment
Strong experience automating with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, Groovy and any deployment scripting languages
Strong experience with CI/CD deployment supporting Java technologies (Jenkins, Nexus, Apache, JBoss, Tomcat, Perforce/Git)
Highly Proficient in Configuration Management (Ansible, Chef or Similar)
Hands-on experience with Containerization, Docker & Kubernetes is required
Excellent understanding of Micro-services architecture, design patterns, and standard methodologies with an eye towards scale, automation, resiliency, high availability and disaster recovery
Excellent understanding of networking, load balancing, caching, security, config and certificate management
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline or equivalent work experience.
Nice to Have Skills: Experience with some of key AWS services (IAM, VPC, Lambda, EKS, MSK, Keyspace, Codepipeline)
Experience with Java ecosystem (Maven, Ant, Tomcat, JBoss)
Experience with Node ecosystem (JavaScript, Angular, Npm, JQuery)
Experience with infrastructure as code software like Terraform
Understanding of SOA and distributed computing
Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) practices with an automated testing framework

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Retirement plans
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities