Principal DevOps Architect
MKS Instruments, Inc.3 days ago
Beaverton, OR, USA or Milpitas, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$140k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision and architecture for MKS’s enterprise DevOps capability across source control, CI/CD, artifact management, release automation, DevSecOps, reliability, and platform governance.
- Modernize and simplify the enterprise DevOps ecosystem spanning GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, CloudBees CI, Nexus, Perforce, Bitbucket, and related platforms.
- Architect reusable CI/CD solutions such as pipeline templates, shared libraries, automated testing, quality gates, artifact promotion, and repeatable release patterns.
- Identify developer friction, technical debt, reliability gaps, and automation or standardization opportunities.
- Partner with Security and IT on identity management, secrets management, least-privilege access, vulnerability scanning, auditability, and software supply-chain controls.
- Establish and lead the DevOps Center of Excellence through standards, reference architectures, documentation, training, mentoring, and community building.
- Advise engineering teams on complex CI/CD, platform, reliability, release, and DevSecOps challenges.
- Improve platform reliability and supportability through automation, ownership, documentation, observability, and operational practices.
- Administer tools such as GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, GitLab, and Jenkins for approximately 20% of the role.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 8 years of progressive experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, software engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience architecting, building, administering, or modernizing enterprise CI/CD and DevOps platforms for multiple teams, sites, or business units.
- Deep understanding of CI/CD architecture, software development lifecycle practices, source control, branching and pull-request models, build and test automation, artifact management, release engineering, and platform reliability.
- Hands-on experience with several of GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, CloudBees CI, Perforce, Bitbucket, Nexus Repository, Jira, and Confluence.
- Experience creating reusable automation, pipelines, templates, frameworks, or platform capabilities that improve consistency and reduce developer friction at scale.
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps and secure software delivery, including identity, secrets, vulnerability management, access controls, auditability, and software supply-chain security.
- Ability to combine architecture with hands-on technical problem solving and influence engineering teams and technical leaders without direct authority.
- Strong communication skills for translating complex technical decisions to engineers, IT, Security, vendors, and business leaders.
- Preferred experience integrating source code management, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps tooling, secure artifact management, software supply-chain controls, and AI-assisted development into enterprise workflows.
- Preferred experience supporting firmware, embedded software, FPGA, robotics, IoT, operational technology, hardware validation, lab-connected testing, or physical-product engineering environments.
- Preferred experience establishing or participating in a DevOps Center of Excellence, platform engineering function, or enterprise architecture governance model.
- Must be eligible to work in the United States; the employer states that work visas will not be sponsored for this position.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with two days per week in the office.
- Travel is less than 15%, with occasional travel for stakeholder workshops or platform reviews.
- Eligible for a discretionary annual bonus.
- Health insurance coverage including medical, dental, and vision.
- 401(k) with company match, life insurance, and disability insurance.
- 12 paid holidays, sick time, and 15 paid vacation days.
- Six weeks of fully paid parental leave, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement.
- The role may involve occasional urgent incidents, platform support, or escalation discussions and collaboration across global time zones.
Tech Stack
GitLab CI/CDJenkins
Categories
About MKS Instruments, Inc.
MKS Instruments designs and manufactures instruments, subsystems, process control solutions, lasers, and specialty chemicals used in semiconductor fabrication, electronics packaging, and industrial production. It sells capital equipment and consumables, along with software and services, to device makers and OEMs seeking to control pressure, flow, power, and contamination in advanced manufacturing. Founded in 1961 and headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, MKS is a public company trading on NASDAQ (MKSI).