Principal DevOps Engineer

AEG Worldwide•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

The Principal DevOps Engineer is a senior-level individual contributor who architects and implements scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure solutions across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP). This role leads technical execution of DevOps best practices, including automation, CI/CD pipeline development, observability, and infrastructure as code. The Principal Engineer partners closely with engineering teams, architecture, and stakeholders to define technical requirements and deliver high-impact solutions. They also mentor peers and promote a DevOps culture focused on reliability, performance, and developer efficiency.

Requirements

BA/BS Degree (4-year) in a related field
6-8 years years of related work experience
Experience designing and configuring Azure cloud services, including AKS, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, ACR, Front Door, Application Insights, Key Vault, Load Balancers, VNets, Traffic Manager, and Event Hub.
Experience automating deployments for microservices-based platforms using CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
Experience collaborating on projects that utilize modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.js, or Ember.js.
Experience configuring infrastructure and application alerts, alarms, and notifications
Experience solving application monitoring challenges using continuous synthetic transactions
Comfortable using Git version control
Experience working in cloud-based DevOps environments with cross-functional or globally distributed teams.
Eagerness to work in a highly collaborative team environment
Understanding of DevOps fundamentals such as security, scalability, and reliability
Ability to design and create cloud-based software defined networking
Familiarity with fault tolerant infrastructure designs including the use of regions and availability zones
Familiarity with Kubernetes setup, configuration, and deployment
Experience with writing infrastructure as code (IaC) (Terraform, Azure ARM, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
Proficiency in a scripting language such as Bash or PowerShell
Experience in at least one programming language (JavaScript, Ruby, Python, PHP, C#)
Experience with a unified, real-time monitoring and analytics platform, such as Azure Log Analytics, Google StackDriver / Operations Suite, New Relic, Splunk or Datadog
Understanding of Microsoft SQL or MySQL
Experience using a CI/CD tool like CircleCI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or AWS CodePipeline
Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, including sprint planning and backlog refinement.
Great verbal and written communication skills
Strong analytical, decision-making, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills
Results driven with reliable follow through
Experience contributing to operational reporting, including system health, performance metrics, and KPI

Responsibilities

Deploy microservices using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) within CI/CD pipelines by scripting, testing, and creating backups to support independent development, scalable deployment, and reliable system configuration.
Train, mentor, and assist other team members in DevOps and Platform Engineering best practices, while actively contributing to the refinement of tickets, definition of technical requirements, and identification of effective solutions.
Collaborate with the team to define measurable and meaningful KPIs for DevOps Engineers to strive toward and follow.
Manage automated build processes using software development platforms (Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, and AWS CodeBuild) to enable quick, efficient, correct, and flexible deployments.
Automate, deploy, and test by leveraging webhooks and status checks from software development platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, GitHub, Jira, and Postman).
Configure and create automated real-time application monitoring solutions that include database log reviews, key performance indicators of system performance, and other alerts to maintain availability and security of database systems.
Champion ChatOps workflows using real-time communication tools (like Slack), and perform system administration tasks including changes to user permissions, system configurations, and tuning of applications and processes in partnership with the development team.
Contribute to monthly reporting on system health, performance metrics, and operational improvements to ensure transparency and continuous optimization.