Principal DevOps Engineer

Principal DevOps Engineer | 8+ Years of Core DevOps Experience

RSA provides trusted identity and access management for 12,000 organizations around the world, managing 25 million enterprise identities and providing secure, convenient access to millions of users. RSA specializes in empowering security-first organizations in financial services, healthcare, energy, technology services, and other industries to thrive in a digital world, delivering complete capabilities for modern authentication, access, lifecycle management, and identity governance. Whether in the cloud or on-premises, RSA connects people with the digital resources they depend on everywhere they live, work, and play.

For decades, RSA has pioneered many of the encryption, authentication, and identity federation technologies that still power the internet. And now RSA is transforming the industry yet again, paving the way for the future of digital identity through the RSA Unified Identity Platform; next-generation hybrid and cloud solutions; the first ever and only multi-functional, passwordless hardware authenticator; and a frictionless, mobile-optimized experience for the modern workforce. If you are self-motivated and looking for a fast-paced challenge doing something that truly matters, come join our winning team!  For more information, go to rsa.com.

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal DevOps Engineer to drive platform engineering and modern infrastructure initiatives across on-premises and cloud environments.  

This is an individual contributor role requiring deep hands-on expertise in bare-metal Kubernetes environments, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), CI/CD automation, and modern DevOps tooling. The role also includes ownership of CI/CD platform evolution, Jenkins lifecycle management, platform reliability, tool upgrades, and disaster recovery strategies. 

Key Responsibilities 

- Architect, build, and maintain Kubernetes clusters across bare-metal (kubeadm, Rancher) and Azure (AKS) 
- Design scalable, resilient platform infrastructure 
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins (Groovy) and GitHub Actions 
- Own Jenkins lifecycle: upgrades, patching, plugin management, migration/modernization 
- Manage GitHub/GitHub Cloud repositories and workflows 
- Ensure timely upgrades of DevOps tools, platforms, and dependencies 
- Define and implement disaster recovery (DR), backup, and high availability strategies 
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices for provisioning and configuration 
- Ensure security, reliability, and performance of systems 
- Troubleshoot complex distributed system and networking issues 
- Collaborate with engineering teams for cloud-native adoption 
- Drive DevOps best practices and platform standardization 

Required Skills & Experience 

Kubernetes: 
- Strong experience with bare-metal Kubernetes (kubeadm, Rancher) 
- Hands-on AKS expertise 
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and lifecycle 
 
CI/CD & Automation: 
- Expert in Jenkins (pipelines, Groovy) 
- Experience with Jenkins upgrades, migrations, plugin dependency management 
- Strong GitHub Actions experience 
- GitHub / GitHub Cloud expertise 
 
Infrastructure: 
- Strong Azure knowledge 
- Experience with hybrid environments 
- Strong Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/ARM/Bicep or equivalent) 
 
Networking: 
- Kubernetes networking (CNI plugins such as Calico, Flannel, Cilium) 
- Ingress controllers (NGINX, Traefik, Azure Application Gateway Ingress Controller) 
- Load balancing (L4/L7, internal/external, MetalLB for bare-metal environments) 
- Strong understanding of cluster networking models (pod-to-pod, pod-to-service     communication) 
- DNS management (CoreDNS, service discovery, external DNS integration) 
- TLS/SSL fundamentals (certificate management, rotation, mTLS concepts) 
- Network policies and segmentation (Kubernetes Network Policies for security) 
- Hybrid networking (on-prem ↔ Azure connectivity: VPN, ExpressRoute) 

Preferred Qualifications 

- Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) 
- Experience with GitOps (ArgoCD / Flux) 
- Kubernetes or Azure certifications 
- Experience modernizing CI/CD platforms 
- Exposure to disaster recovery planning and execution 

Nice to Have 

- AI/ML implementation in DevOps (AIOps, intelligent automation, pipeline optimization) 
- Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) 
- Platform engineering experience 

Key Traits 

- Strong ownership mindset 
- Deep technical hands-on expertise 
- Ability to work independently as a principal IC 
- Excellent troubleshooting skills 
- Strong communication skills 
RSA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, and any other category protected by applicable country law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact the RSA Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected]. RSA and its approved consultants will never ask you for a fee to process or consider your application for a career with RSA. RSA reserves the right to amend or withdraw any job posting at any time, including prior to the advertised closing date.