Job Description
Our client, a major provider of risk modeling tools that has been around for over 40 years is looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer to lead and drive the DevOps and SRE initiatives for their SaaS platform. The Principal DevOps Engineer will lead the design of their engineering platform, standards, and automation to enable product teams to build, test, and deploy independently and safely. The role is a hands on leader that can partner with engineering teams to create self service pipelines and infrastructure that production teams can confidently operate and build from.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Big Pluses
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve a modern DevOps platform that enables engineering teams to own their build, test, and deployment workflows end to end.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) for microservices, data workloads, and batch jobs.
- Define and enforce repository and branching standards, code quality practices, and automation patterns across engineering teams.
- Architect and implement infrastructure as code using AWS CDK and Terraform for consistent provisioning.
- Partner with teams to give them strong, automated deployment workflows and infrastructure patterns rather than directly running production.
- Collaborate with architects and senior engineers to set technical direction and make key platform decisions around resiliency, security, and scalability.
- Drive best practices around observability and reliability (dashboards, alerts, logs, traces) so production teams have the insight they need to operate services.
- Produce clear documentation, reference implementations, and templates.
- Mentor and coach engineers by pairing, code reviews, and design reviews.
Qualifications
- 10+ years in DevOps / Platform Engineering, with at least 5 years in a senior or lead role.
- 3+ years designing and operating solutions on AWS cloud services and architecture.
- 5+ years of hands on development experience in Python or Java.
- Proven experience architecting, building, and deploying microservices in distributed, production environments.
- 2+ years of hands on experience with GitHub Enterprise.
- Experience designing and evolving microservices architectures for scalability.
- Strong architecture experience designing large scale CI/CD and release engineering infrastructure.
- Demonstrated experience establishing and enforcing repository standards, naming conventions, and governance policies at scale.
- Expert level proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure as code at scale.
- Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
Big Pluses
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect certification.
- Experience with platform tools like Backstage.
- Experience implementing DevOps KPIs AKA DORA.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Boston, MA |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 50 to 99 employees |
| Year Founded | 2002 |
| Website | https://phaxis.com/ |
About Company
We stand for PERSEVERANCE, as we refuse to quit when the journey gets tough. Your gold is our mission, and we search day and night to find it.
Skills
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Architectural Designunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Cloud Architectureunmatched
- Coachingunmatched
- Code Reviewsunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- DevOpsunmatched
- Dockerunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- GitHubunmatched
- Javaunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Microservicesunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Release Management/Engineeringunmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
- Risk Modelingunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Software as a Service (SaaS)unmatched
- Testingunmatched
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