Principal DevOps Engineer

Ascensus is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer who will provide technical leadership and architectural direction for DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering practices across multiple agile teams. The role involves designing scalable delivery platforms, mentoring engineers, and continuously improving developer experience and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Provide architectural oversight and technical direction for DevOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering practices across multiple scrum teams
• Partner with Application and Program Architects to align DevOps solutions with business and product strategy
• Define and evolve standards for build, deployment, infrastructure, and environment management
• Design reusable reference architectures, templates, and patterns for consistent adoption across teams
• Lead the design and implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines, including build, test, release, and deployment workflows
• Establish best practices for source control, branching strategies, and release management
• Design Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for provisioning and managing environments
• Embed security and compliance controls directly into pipelines (DevSecOps)
• Drive adoption of containerized and cloud‑native architectures using Kubernetes‑based platforms
• Ensure platforms meet standards for scalability, resiliency, performance, and cost efficiency
• Guide teams on service networking, API management, load balancing, and traffic management
• Support high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies
• Provide Level‑3 support for complex production incidents and reliability challenges
• Partner with operations and engineering teams to improve observability, monitoring, and alerting
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve system stability and operational maturity
• Mentor and coach engineers on DevOps practices, tools, and architectural decision‑making
• Promote a culture of automation, ownership, continuous improvement, and quality
• Model strong collaboration, communication, and engineering discipline
• Research emerging tools, technologies, and practices to improve the software delivery lifecycle
• Build consensus and introduce cost‑effective solutions that increase delivery speed, quality, and reliability
• Continuously optimize DevOps platforms and processes based on measurable outcomes

Requirements:

• 10+ years of hands‑on experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Build & Release, or Engineering Operations roles
• Proven experience designing and supporting DevOps architecture in enterprise‑scale production environments
• Strong experience with Agile/Scrum, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery
• Hands‑on experience deploying and troubleshooting applications in Linux and Windows environments
• Advanced automation and scripting experience using PowerShell, Python, or similar languages
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins
• Deep expertise in Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform)
• Proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Solid understanding of: Microservices and cloud‑native architectures, Networking, load balancing, caching, and service discovery, Security, secrets management, and certificate management, High availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery
• Hands‑on experience with AWS cloud services
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and guide technical direction across teams
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, etc.)
• Experience with NGINX / NGINX Plus, Consul, and Redis
• Exposure to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and reliability metrics
• Experience supporting large enterprise platforms (BPM, CRM, Portals, Content Management)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Java ecosystem experience (JDK, Spring Boot, Struts)
• JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React, or Node.js
• Experience with monolith, microservices, and event‑driven architectures
• Experience with Test‑Driven Development (TDD) and automated testing frameworks