Principal DevOps Engineer

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will be a founding member of a team building an AI-driven platform to transform how Life Sciences companies manage safety, regulatory, and clinical development.

Responsibilities:

• Provide in-depth software engineering expertise in cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming
• Implement core DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC), continuous integration, and automated deployments
• Build and manage robust CI/CD workflows to automate full-lifecycle tasks and elevate developer productivity
• Provision, manage, and scale infrastructure using Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes
• Drive architectural design, integration solutions, and engineering best practices across the organization
• Proactively improve system reliability, availability, performance, and durability to minimize operational risk

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps roles, emphasizing tooling, automation, and distributed systems
• Proven track record as a strong mentor dedicated to developing team capabilities
• Extensive experience designing and programming applications in AWS
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration tools (Ansible, Terraform)
• Deep expertise with containerization, serverless architectures, and orchestrators (Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• Proficient in Python, as well as statically typed languages like Java, Scala, or Go
• Hands-on experience setting up and managing CI pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, Codefresh)
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability frameworks to track system health and performance
• Strong technical writing and presentation skills, with experience in proposals, estimation, and documentation
• Experience with SQL, data modeling, and design