Principal DevOps Engineer

Schneider Electric•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

2d•Remote

About The Position

EV Connect is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to join their DevOps team. This role is crucial for scaling the company's cloud platform, focusing on reliability, security, and maturity. The engineer will lead the next stage of infrastructure, developer platform, and software delivery. This is a hands-on technical leadership position requiring deep experience in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, automation, and secure software delivery. The ideal candidate will have experience in a platform engineering environment, helping engineering teams improve speed through reusable tools, standardized patterns, self-service capabilities, and clear operational guardrails. The role involves defining and implementing platform capabilities to enhance release reliability, developer productivity, infrastructure resiliency, security, and operational excellence across the SaaS platform.

Requirements

Deep hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures.
Strong experience with Kubernetes, preferably AWS EKS, including production operations, ingress, autoscaling, networking, deployments, and troubleshooting.
Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
Strong CI/CD experience using tools such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar platforms.
Experience building reusable DevOps or platform engineering capabilities such as deployment templates, shared pipelines, Terraform modules, Helm charts, or self-service workflows.
Experience supporting high-availability, customer-facing SaaS platforms.
Strong understanding of observability practices, including logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, SLOs, and incident response.
Experience improving release reliability through automation, deployment standards, health checks, rollback patterns, and operational guardrails.
Experience integrating security into DevOps workflows, including vulnerability management, container scanning, secrets management, IAM, and cloud security controls.
Strong scripting or programming experience using tools such as Python, Bash, YAML, or similar.
Ability to lead technical design discussions, influence architecture decisions, and guide engineering teams toward scalable and maintainable solutions.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related roles.
Experience working in a platform engineering or internal developer platform environment.
Experience helping engineering teams adopt standardized CI/CD, infrastructure automation, GitOps, Kubernetes, or self-service deployment capabilities.
Experience defining or implementing paved paths, service templates, deployment standards, or internal developer workflows.
Experience improving release reliability, deployment automation, operational maturity, or developer productivity.
Experience with incident response, production support, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement practices.
Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, QA, Product, Security, Architecture, and Operations teams.
Comfortable operating as a hands-on technical leader while also mentoring others and influencing broader engineering practices.
AWS certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, or AWS Security Specialty.
Experience with GitOps, ArgoCD, Helm, Istio, Flagger, Argo Rollouts, or progressive delivery practices.
Experience with SOC 2, PCI, ISO 27001, NIST, or other compliance-driven environments.
Experience with disaster recovery, multi-region architecture, backup/restore strategies, and resiliency testing.
Experience improving DORA metrics, deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR, or other software delivery metrics.
Experience with cloud cost optimization, tagging strategies, forecasting, and financial governance.
Experience with EV industry experience with station integration or open protocols like OCPP, OCPI, or OpenADR.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of EV Connect’s cloud infrastructure, DevOps platform, and software delivery practices.
Build and improve reusable developer platform capabilities, including CI/CD workflows, Terraform modules, Helm charts, Kubernetes deployment patterns, GitOps workflows, and infrastructure automation.
Develop standardized workflows and paved paths that help engineering teams build, deploy, observe, and operate services safely and independently.
Improve release reliability by reducing manual coordination, strengthening automated validation, improving deployment guardrails, and increasing production visibility.
Partner with Engineering, QA, Product, Security, and Architecture teams to improve deployment safety, release confidence, and developer velocity.
Drive improvements to Kubernetes-based deployment strategies, including canary deployments, rollback patterns, release orchestration, and production readiness practices.
Provide technical leadership for AWS cloud architecture, EKS, networking, IAM, observability, infrastructure automation, and operational resiliency.
Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, incident response, and post-incident follow-up practices.
Embed security, compliance, and governance into DevOps workflows, including vulnerability scanning, secrets management, IAM/RBAC, policy enforcement, and secure cloud configuration.
Identify operational gaps and lead initiatives that improve scalability, reliability, security, cost efficiency, and maintainability.
Mentor senior engineers and provide technical guidance across cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure best practices.
Help establish standards and guardrails that allow engineering teams to own their services while maintaining platform consistency and operational control.