Adverse Events, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Bash Scripting, Budgeting, C++ Programming Language, Capacity Management, Cloud Computing, Coaching, Communication Skills, Computer Programming, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Cost Analysis, Cost Control, Cryptography, Detail Oriented, DevOps, FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) 140-2, Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), Firearms Experience, Go Programming Language (Golang), Incident Response, Literacy, Machine Tool, Mentoring, Metrics, Microsoft .NET, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Registered Training Organisation (RTO), Regulatory Compliance, Right-Sizing, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Single Sign-On (SSO), Technical Leadership, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Writing Skills
Principal Engineer, DevOps & Infrastructure
DepartmentTechnology
Employment TypeFull-time
LocationRemote / Hybrid / Conshohocken, PA
Reports ToCTO
About ZeroEyes, Inc.
ZeroEyes was founded by former Navy SEALs, self-starters and elite technologists with a mission to reduce the threat and impact of mass shootings and gun-related violence using our best-in-class artificial intelligence (AI) platform that detects visible firearms before theres a threat. As a member of the ZeroEyes team, youll have the unique opportunity to join a forward-facing, purpose-driven company, and your perseverance and individual skill set will become crucial to our missions success.
About the role
Were looking for a low-ego, high-ownership Principal Engineer to provide technical oversight, mentoring, and hands-on design for our DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) stack. Youll be the bar-setter for reliability, security, and velocity across our cloud and orchestration platform. AWS and FedRAMP experience is highly desiredyoull help us build, document, and run systems that meet rigorous compliance requirements while staying developer-friendly and cost-efficient.
We value people who have strong, well-informed opinions and express them diplomatically, who care more about truth than winning arguments, who mentor generously, and who take personal responsibility for the organizations success.
What youll do
- Own the platform architecture: Define target state for cloud, network, identity, and runtime orchestration across AWS.
- Lead Infrastructure as Code: Establish standards and reusable modules (Terraform/Pulumi), policy-as-code (Kyvernol), GitOps workflows (FluxCD/Kustomize), and immutable images (Gitlab/Dagger).
- Drive FedRAMP/NIST alignment: Map controls (NIST 800-53), lead technical portions of the SSP, implement CIS/STIG hardening, FIPS-validated crypto usage, logging/monitoring requirements, and support ATO and continuous monitoring (ConMon) with auditors/3PAO.
- Elevate reliability: Define SLOs/error budgets, incident response/runbooks, postmortems without blame, chaos and DR testing, multi-AZ/region strategies, and cost-aware resilience (RTO/RPO).
- Hands-on enablement: Pair with teams to deliver CI/CD (GitLab Pipelines), container platforms (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE, ECS, Fargate), and service meshes/ingress.
- Security by default: Identity & access (IAM/Okta, SSO/SAML/OIDC), secrets (AWS SM/KMS), supply-chain security (SBOM, Sigstore/Cosign, SLSA/SSDF), network segmentation/zero-trust.
- Observability: Standardize metrics/logs/traces (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry, ELK/Datadog), golden signals, actionable alerts, and capacity planning/FinOps.
- Mentor & multiply: Coach SRE/DevOps/Platform engineers, run design reviews/ADRs, and establish pragmatic guardrails that speed teams up.
- Vendor & cost management: Evaluate and right-size infra/services; build dashboards and budgets that the business can trust.
- Documentation & audits: Keep docs current (runbooks, diagrams, control evidence); make auditors happy without slowing engineers.
What youll bring
- 10+ years building/running production infrastructure; 5+ years leading DevOps/SRE or platform teams; prior Principal/Staff scope.
- FedRAMP Moderate experience and working with a 3PAO.
- Deep IaC expertise (Terraform or Pulumi), GitOps, and modern CI/CD; wide breadth of knowledge, including container orchestration (ECS/EKS) and container security.
- Multi-cloud proficiency (AWS strongly preferred).
- Security engineering literacy: NIST/CIS/STIG, FIPS 140-2/3 crypto usage, key management (KMS/HSM), least-privilege IAM, and policy-as-code.
- Observability at scale (metrics/logs/traces), performance tuning, and cost governance/FinOps practices.
- Strong coding skills in at least one of C++/Python/Golang/.NET, plus Bash; able to build tooling and not just wire it together.
- Excellent written design docs and clear, candid communication; proven track record mentoring senior engineers.
- Nice-to-have: data pipeline or real-time video/ML workloads; service mesh (Istio), incident command experience.
Values
- No jerks
- Be authentic
- Be effective
- Attention to detail
- All in, all the time
Eligibility
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or other clearance may be required.
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