Principal DevOps Engineer

Broadcast Music, Inc.

5d • $140,000 - $160,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Principal DevOps Engineer is BMI’s senior individual contributor for enterprise DevOps and platform engineering. The role defines and evolves cloud, automation, software delivery, and operational reliability patterns aligned with Architecture and business strategy. It leads the design of secure, scalable Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) platforms and establishes reusable infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, GitOps, observability, and governance capabilities. Azure DevOps is the organization’s standard source-control, build, and deployment platform across both cloud environments. The role is a hands-on technical authority that leads complex cross-functional initiatives and proofs of concept, mentors engineers, and drives measurable improvements in developer experience, delivery performance, resiliency, security, and operational efficiency.

The position owns enterprise DevOps and platform-engineering strategy and reference architecture; designs and supports cloud infrastructure and shared platform services; and establishes standards for infrastructure as code, software delivery, automation, repository governance, security, observability, and reliability. It provides technical leadership and consultation across Development, Architecture, Security, Network, Infrastructure, and Operations, while leading initiatives and communicating decisions, status, dependencies, and risks to stakeholders and leadership.

BMI is a mission-driven music rights and creator advocacy organization that represents public performance rights in musical works, negotiates music license agreements, and distributes royalties to affiliated writers and publishers. The role participates in SDLC development, testing, deployment, implementation, and continuous improvement, maintains technical documentation, and supports a collaborative, inclusive culture of engineering excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant industry experience.
• Ten or more years of progressive experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related technical field.
• Five or more years designing, implementing, managing, and supporting enterprise cloud infrastructure and cloud-based platforms in Microsoft Azure and/or AWS, with demonstrated ability to design and operate across multi-cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience as a senior technical lead, principal engineer, architect, or equivalent authority for enterprise-scale DevOps or platform-engineering initiatives.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, containerized workloads, and production services in a large enterprise environment.
• Progressive achievement in job history, including successful delivery of complex cross-functional initiatives with measurable technical or operational outcomes.
• Expert-level Terraform infrastructure-as-code experience, including reusable modules, testing, state and dependency management, upgrade strategy, drift detection, and governed deployment workflows.
• Expert-level design and implementation of CI/CD and release-engineering systems using Azure DevOps, including Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines, for delivery across Azure and AWS.
• Advanced Kubernetes and container-platform expertise, including AKS, EKS, Helm, Argo CD GitOps, workload security, cluster operations and upgrades, scaling, networking, storage, and troubleshooting.
• Advanced automation and software-development capability using PowerShell, Bash, Python, APIs, SDKs, and Git-based development practices.
• Deep understanding of Azure and AWS governance, policy as code, identity and access management, secrets and certificate automation, network security, DevSecOps, software supply-chain security, resource organization, tagging, and cloud cost controls.
• Advanced multi-cloud observability and reliability engineering experience using Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Amazon CloudWatch, or comparable tooling, including SLOs, actionable alerting, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Expert understanding of SDLC automation, Agile delivery, design and development practices, testing standards, change control, continuous integration and delivery, and operational readiness.
• Ability to develop reference architectures and technical standards that balance security, reliability, developer experience, cost, maintainability, and delivery speed.
• Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and exercise sound judgment when requirements are incomplete or priorities conflict.
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams and levels through credibility, facilitation, clear decision frameworks, and evidence-based recommendations.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to engineering, security, architecture, operations, business, and executive audiences.
• Exceptional analytical, systems-thinking, troubleshooting, problem-solving, presentation, and technical-writing skills.
• Ability to mentor engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and improve engineering quality through reviews, standards, pairing, and practical guidance.
• Strong attention to detail, accountability, collaboration, open communication, and commitment to engineering excellence.
• Must be willing to work outside normal business hours, including weekends, when required to support releases, incidents, or critical initiatives.

Nice To Haves

• Experience establishing an internal developer platform, paved-road or golden-path capabilities, self-service infrastructure, or developer portals.
• Experience applying FinOps practices, cloud cost allocation, capacity optimization, and unit-cost or consumption metrics to platform decisions.
• Experience with enterprise risk, regulatory, audit, or compliance requirements and automated evidence collection.
• Relevant professional certification, such as Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, or comparable credentials.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise technical strategy and reference architecture for DevOps, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, software delivery, and engineering automation; translate business and Architecture direction into standards and roadmaps.
• Design, implement, and support secure, resilient, scalable shared cloud infrastructure and platform services across Azure and AWS, including Kubernetes, containers, networking, identity, compute, storage, and data capabilities.
• Architect and govern Terraform infrastructure as code, including reusable modules, testing, remote state management, policy checks, controlled promotion, and lifecycle management.
• Define and evolve CI/CD and software-delivery patterns using Azure DevOps, Azure Repos, and Azure Pipelines, including quality gates, artifact management, release controls, progressive delivery, rollback, and traceability.
• Lead GitOps architecture and deployment practices using Azure DevOps, Argo CD, Helm, Kubernetes, and related technologies.
• Create automation and platform capabilities using PowerShell, Bash, Python, APIs, SDKs, and event-driven integrations to reduce manual work and improve consistency and throughput.
• Establish Git and repository governance, including branching, pull requests, code reviews, release practices, dependency management, and software supply-chain controls.
• Design and enforce Azure and AWS governance and security controls, including policy as code, identity and access integration, secrets and certificate management, network and workload security, resource organization and tagging, cost governance, compliance evidence, and automated guardrails.
• Define cross-platform observability standards using Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Amazon CloudWatch, or related services, including standards for logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, service-level indicators, alerting, and operational telemetry.
• Lead reliability engineering practices, including service-level objectives, capacity and performance engineering, high availability, disaster recovery, operational readiness, incident response, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Monitor delivery, reliability, security, and platform-adoption metrics; identify systemic constraints and lead measurable improvements.
• Chair or provide technical authority for architecture reviews, platform decisions, change-control standards, and quality and testing requirements for software and infrastructure builds and deployments.
• Lead technology evaluations and proofs of concept; document findings, risks, cost and operational trade-offs, and recommendations for leadership.
• Create and maintain reference architectures, implementation guides, reusable templates, technical standards, decision records, training materials, and operational procedures.
• Provide expert consultation, technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to DevOps, platform, development, and infrastructure engineers.
• Facilitate alignment across Development, Architecture, Security, Network, Infrastructure, and Operations teams; resolve cross-domain technical issues and influence adoption of enterprise standards.
• Participate in SDLC development, testing, deployment, implementation, and continuous-improvement activities.
• Lead multiple concurrent initiatives with high scope, ambiguity, risk, and organizational impact; clearly communicate status, decisions, dependencies, and risks.
• Ensure required technical documentation is complete, accurate, accessible, and current.
• Support organizational values and a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, diversity, inclusion, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Work outside normal business hours, including weekends, when required to support releases, incidents, or critical initiatives.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with employer match on 100% of the first 4%
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Hybrid office schedule and remote Fridays
• Short-term and long-term disability benefits
• Paid vacation and sick/personal time
• Paid volunteer time off
• 12 paid holidays
• Summer half-days
• Company-paid life insurance
• Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Commuter benefits in New York
• Employee Resource Groups
• Entertainment discounts and access to BMI concerts and events in BMI offices
• Employee appreciation events and holiday parties at all office locations
• The role may also be eligible for incentives and other rewards as part of BMI’s total rewards package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal