Principal DevOps Engineer
SageSure
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Drive the development and continuous improvement of platform tools, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and monitoring capabilities to effectively support engineering teams.
- Design and implement self-service tools and frameworks that empower engineering teams, promoting scalability, efficiency, and reusability across various platforms.
- Provide expert-level technical oversight and mentorship to engineering teams, ensuring platform capabilities are seamlessly integrated into workflows and aligned with organizational goals.
- Establish and maintain comprehensive technical documentation and engineering standards, ensuring platform tools remain understandable, extensible, and accessible to all teams.
- Analyze and resolve complex performance issues within platform tools, identifying root causes, and implementing robust, scalable solutions to enhance efficiency and reliability.
- Proactively research and adopt new technologies, tools, and engineering patterns that elevate developer productivity and improve self-service capabilities.
- Focus extensively on scalability, performance optimization, and sustainable software delivery, ensuring efficient resource utilization and cost effectiveness.
- Actively participate in on-call rotations, providing critical expertise and technical guidance to maintain production environment resilience and high availability.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building, scaling, and implementing DevOps solutions, with deep expertise in automation and tooling.
- Ability to develop and document reusable, scalable solutions that enable engineering teams to operate efficiently.
- Demonstrated expertise in automation practices, leveraging best practices and methodologies to streamline workflows and seamlessly integrate tooling into engineering processes.
- A platform-focused mindset, capable of developing, documenting, and promoting reusable patterns that significantly enhance engineering productivity.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes or similar container orchestration frameworks, along with experience using ecosystem tools such as Helm, Docker, Argo Rollouts, and Ingress NGINX, to build resilient and scalable solutions.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD methodologies and tools (e.g., GitLab CI, Blue/Green and Canary deployments, API testing), emphasizing modular, scalable, and efficient pipeline design.
- Proficient in automated scripting, including designing, coding, debugging, and maintaining scripts in Python, Bash, or Go, and capable of setting scripting standards and best practices.
- Experience developing solutions on cloud platforms, particularly AWS, with comprehensive knowledge of cloud-native architecture and best practices.
- Strong understanding of monitoring and observability best practices, including the ability to design solutions that deliver actionable insights into distributed systems.
Benefits
- Generous health benefits and perks
- Tuition reimbursement
- Wellness allowance
- Paid volunteer time off
- Matching 401K plan
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Hard skills
DevOps solutionsautomationKubernetesHelmDockerArgo RolloutsCI/CD methodologiesPythonBashAWS
Soft skills
technical oversightmentorshipproblem-solvingdocumentationcollaborationscalability mindsetefficiency focusproactive researchcommunicationleadership