Principal DevOps Engineer

Northwoods

DevOps Engineer Lead managing product delivery operations for Northwoods, focusing on infrastructure, deployments, and AI-enabled delivery tooling. This hands-on role ensures operational excellence while mentoring engineers within a hybrid work setting.

Posted 5/17/2026full-timeDublin • Ohio • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSGraphiteKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonTerraformUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own day-to-day DevOps operations, including infrastructure health, monitoring, logging, patching, security posture, and maintenance
Own and execute deployment processes end-to-end, ensuring they are secure, repeatable, transparent, and well documented with clear failure signals
Design, build, and maintain automated, scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure across production, development, and test environments using infrastructure-as-code and platform engineering best practices
Build, operate, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines with reliable verification stages
Own application-level networking and infrastructure concerns, including network configuration, access controls, and connectivity

Requirements

What you’ll need

6-10 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, infrastructure, or platform engineering supporting production systems at scale
Strong, hands-on experience operating workloads in AWS, with responsibility for reliability, security, performance, and day-to-day operations across services that include both traditional application workloads and AI-enabled platform capabilities
Proven production experience with Kubernetes, including deploying, operating, and troubleshooting containerized workloads
Strong programming experience with Python (or similar), with the ability to write and maintain production automation and work fluently in code-first operational workflows
Deep hands-on expertise with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices, with experience using broader DevOps tooling such as CloudFormation and Ansible
Strong proficiency with git based source control, including code reviews, collaborative workflows, and infrastructure/code ownership
Extensive experience building, operating, and improving CI/CD pipelines for provisioning, deployment, scaling, and automated verification
Strong Linux/Unix expertise, including administration, scripting, troubleshooting, and operational monitoring in production environments
Hands-on experience implementing monitoring and log aggregation platforms (ELK, Graylog, Graphite, Prometheus, etc.)
Experience implementing test automation and AI-assisted tooling to improve deployment quality, reliability, and operational efficiency
Experience deploying and managing application infrastructure such as web or application servers, load balancers, queues, and caches

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical (includes H.S.A. option with employer contribution)
dental, and vision insurance
Short- and long-term disability
Company paid basic life insurance
401(k) with 4% company match and immediate vesting
Free financial education and consultation
Wellness program that helps you earn lower premiums
Robust EAP program that includes free therapy sessions, lifestyle coaching, legal/ID theft services, and more
12 weeks fully paid parental leave
Up to $5,000 adoption fee reimbursement
$500 wellness reimbursement after 60 days of employment
Generous PTO policy and 10 company paid holidays
Company paid cell phone plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

DevOpsinfrastructure healthmonitoringloggingpatchingsecurity postureCI/CD pipelinesKubernetesPythonTerraform

Soft Skills

collaborative workflowsdocumentationtroubleshootingoperational monitoringproduction automationnetwork configurationaccess controlsconnectivitycontinuous improvementreliability