Principal DevOps Engineer
Schneider ElectricBase Salary
$142k - $214k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of cloud infrastructure, the DevOps platform, and software delivery practices.
- Build reusable developer platform capabilities including CI/CD workflows, Terraform modules, Helm charts, Kubernetes deployment patterns, GitOps workflows, and infrastructure automation.
- Establish standardized paved paths, self-service workflows, deployment guardrails, and operational practices for engineering teams.
- Improve release reliability through automated validation, deployment strategies, rollback patterns, release orchestration, and production visibility.
- Provide technical leadership for AWS architecture, EKS, networking, IAM, observability, infrastructure automation, and operational resiliency.
- Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, incident response, and post-incident practices.
- Embed vulnerability management, container scanning, secrets management, IAM/RBAC, policy enforcement, and secure cloud configuration into DevOps workflows.
- Lead initiatives focused on scalability, reliability, security, cost efficiency, maintainability, and developer productivity.
- Mentor senior engineers and guide cross-functional technical design and architecture decisions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related roles.
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures.
- Strong production Kubernetes experience, preferably AWS EKS, including ingress, autoscaling, networking, deployments, and troubleshooting.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
- Strong CI/CD experience with 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 and improving release reliability through automation and operational guardrails.
- Strong understanding of observability, including logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, SLOs, and incident response.
- Strong scripting or programming experience using Python, Bash, YAML, or similar.
- Ability to lead technical design discussions, influence architecture decisions, and communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience with platform engineering or internal developer platforms, GitOps, Kubernetes, standardized deployment capabilities, incident response, root cause analysis, and cross-functional engineering practices.
- AWS certifications, progressive delivery experience, compliance-driven environments, disaster recovery, multi-region architecture, resiliency testing, DORA metrics, cloud cost optimization, or EV industry protocols are preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance benefits.
- Benefit Bucks, flexible work arrangements, paid family leave, well-being programs, 12 holidays, and 15 days of paid time off per year.
- 401(k) with company match, company share ownership, base salary, and incentives.
- Performance discussions, global opportunities, the Schneider Career Hub, and learning platforms such as Coursera.
- Volunteer leave, Schneider Electric Foundation programs, youth education initiatives, and military leave benefits.
- Inclusive workplace and career development opportunities.
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About Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric is a global energy technology leader, driving efficiency and sustainability by electrifying, automating, and digitalizing industries, businesses, and homes. Its technologies enable buildings, data centers, factories, infrastructure, and grids to operate as open, interconnected ecosystems—enhancing performance, resilience, and sustainability. The portfolio includes intelligent devices, software-defined architectures, AI-powered systems, digital services, and expert advisory. With 160,000 employees and one million partners in over 100 countries, Schneider Electric is consistently ranked among the world’s most sustainable companies. www.se.com Follow us on: https://www.facebook.com/SchneiderElectric https://www.x.com/SchneiderElec https://www.x.com/SE_Careers https://www.instagram.com/schneiderelectric https://www.youtube.com/schneiderelectric https://www.tiktok.com/@schneiderelectric_global