Principal DevOps Engineer
Looking for an innovative, high-growth, multi-award-winning company in one of the hottest segments of the security market? Look no further than Veracode!
Veracode is a global leader in Application Risk Management for the AI era. Powered by trillions of lines of code scans and a proprietary AI-generated remediation engine, the Veracode platform is trusted by organizations worldwide to build and maintain secure software from code creation to cloud deployment.
Learn more at www.veracode.com, on the Veracode blog, and on LinkedIn and Twitter.
We are seeking a highly skilled Principal DevOps Engineer to lead our DevOps initiatives, drive automation, and optimize cloud infrastructure. This role is ideal for an experienced professional who thrives in designing and maintaining scalable, secure, and cost-efficient CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud-based systems.
What you will be responsible for:
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure cloud infrastructure (AWS).
- Architect, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment efficiency and reliability.
- Lead Kubernetes (EKS) deployments, ensuring high availability, security, and performance.
- Implement infrastructure as code (Terraform) to standardize deployments.
- Drive automation across infrastructure, monitoring, and security processes.
- Monitor and optimize cloud costs while ensuring operational efficiency.
- Establish best practices for observability, logging, and monitoring using tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
- Collaborate with software engineers, security teams, and stakeholders to streamline workflows and improve system reliability.
- Mentor and guide junior DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Ensure compliance with security standards and industry best practices (SOC2, FIPS, etc).
Required Skills:
- Must be eligible for FedRAMP certification
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles.
- Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS) and infrastructure automation.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Proficiency in CI/CD tools (ArgoCD and GitLab CI/CD).
- Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Experience with scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Go, or similar).
- Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
- Understanding of cloud cost management and optimization strategies.
- Experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Consul).
- Familiarity with security best practices in DevOps.
- Knowledge of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architectures.
- Exposure to FinOps principles and cloud cost governance.
What we offer you
- Outstanding Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage to meet all your healthcare needs.
- Wellness benefits to help you focus on what’s most important.
- “Take What You Need” time off policy.
- Extensive development and training offerings to help you grow your career at Veracode.
- Generous 401k match to help save for your future.
- Amazing community of professionals who take pride in what we do every day.
Compensation Transparency
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Job Grade: Principal
Employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
At Veracode, we prioritize a secure recruitment process. Unfortunately, fake recruitment and job offer scams are on the rise. They aim to deceive candidates through emails and calls to obtain sensitive information.
Here’s our recruitment promise to you:
- Comprehensive Interview Process: We never extend job offers without a comprehensive interview process involving our recruitment team and hiring managers.
- Offer Communications: Our job offers are not sent solely through email, and we will never ask you to pay for your own hardware.
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