Principal DevOps Engineer

What You Will Do

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter roadmap for cloud infrastructure, aligned with engineering and business goals

Lead architecture and design for cross-team initiatives, driving decisions through RFCs and design reviews

Build and evolve internal platform products that make engineering teams faster and safer, and own their full lifecycle

Deploy and manage infrastructure hands-on through infrastructure as code, across cloud and container platforms

Own reliability for critical infrastructure: define SLOs, lead complex incidents, and drive postmortem actions to completion

Drive cost efficiency and capacity planning across cloud providers

Embed security, compliance, and policy as code into the platform by default

Apply AI and agent-based tooling to automate operations and improve developer experience

Mentor senior engineers, grow technical leaders, and set standards for code, documentation, and operations

Partner with engineering leadership and product teams, influencing direction without direct authority

Minimum Requirements

10+ years in infrastructure, platform, or SRE engineering, including experience operating at Staff or Principal scope

Proven record of leading large, cross-team infrastructure initiatives from ambiguous problem to production

Deep expertise in at least one major cloud (GCP or AWS) and working knowledge of a second

Expert-level Kubernetes: designing, scaling, upgrading, and troubleshooting production clusters (GKE or EKS)

Strong infrastructure as code practice with Terraform, including module design and state management at scale

Strong software engineering skills in Go or Python, with a maintained production codebase

Solid networking fundamentals: VPC design, routing, DNS, load balancing, service mesh (Istio or similar)

Experience building observability at scale (Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)

GitOps and CI/CD experience (ArgoCD, Flux, or similar)

Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to explain complex tradeoffs clearly in documents and async channels

Nice to Have

Experience with AI/LLM platform infrastructure or agent-based automation

Managed data services at scale (e.g. MongoDB Atlas, Cloud SQL, Kafka)

Secrets management and policy as code (e.g. Akeyless, Vault, OPA)

FinOps experience with measurable savings

Experience in a globally distributed engineering organization

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, or work experience.

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Actual compensation offered will be based on factors such as the candidate’s work location, qualifications, skills, experience and/or training. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific salary range for your desired work location during the hiring process. We want our employees and their families to thrive.

In addition to comprehensive benefits we offer holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being. Learn more about ZoomInfo benefits here.

Below is the US base salary for this position. Additional compensation such as Bonus, Commission, Equity and other benefits may also apply.

$155,400—$244,200 USD