Principal DevOps Engineer

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A Brief Overview
The Principal DevOps Engineer will lead the technical strategy and implementation of CHOP's enterprise-wide cloud migration. As a senior member of the Cloud Product Team within the Enterprise Technology Platform Solutions department, you will drive adoption of cloud-native infrastructure, automate delivery pipelines, and collaborate cross-functionally to modernize our data and analytics platforms.
You'll be expected to bring strong DevOps leadership, deep Public Cloud expertise, and a history of managing complex migrations from legacy or hybrid environments to cloud.
What you will do

• Lead the planning and execution of large-scale cloud infrastructure migration
• Build and maintain secure, scalable, and cost-optimized cloud environments using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Bicep
• Design and manage CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native data and analytics products
• Identify and resolve platform gaps in observability, performance, and cost efficiency
• Collaborate across infrastructure, security, and analytics teams to align on technical standards
• Develop and enforce DevOps best practices and guide engineering maturity across teams
• Drive automation in provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and deployment pipelines
• Serve as a technical lead for incident response, root cause analysis, and production troubleshooting
• Actively mentor junior DevOps and Data Engineers
• Support Agile delivery through Scrum ceremonies and cross-team coordination

The department works approximately 80% remotely, 20% on site in our Philadelphia offices on an as-needed basis.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Informatics, or related quantitative field - Required
• Master's Degree Computer Science, Informatics, or related quantitative field - Preferred

Experience Qualifications

• At least six (6) years Public cloud environments, including production-grade implementations - Required and
• At least ten (10) years IT infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering - Required

Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated leadership in at least one major cloud migration initiative (Required proficiency)
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell (Required proficiency)
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, AKS, Docker) (Required proficiency)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) (Required proficiency)
• Infrastructure automation with tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Chef (Required proficiency)
• Understanding of cloud networking, identity, and security best practices (Required proficiency)
• Knowledge of cost optimization strategies (e.g., Azure Reserved Instances, tagging/governance) (Required proficiency)
• Exposure to FinOps and enterprise cost reporting in the cloud (Preferred proficiency)
• Experience designing and managing infrastructure across multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) (Required proficiency)
• Proficiency with IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) across cloud providers using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Deployment Manager (Required proficiency)
• Experience configuring cloud-native CI/CD pipelines, including tools such as: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or Google Cloud Build (Required proficiency)
• Knowledge of container security and image scanning tools (e.g., Trivy, Aqua, Anchore) (Required proficiency)
• Familiarity with service mesh architectures (e.g., Istio, Linkerd, AWS App Mesh) (Preferred proficiency)
• Experience managing secrets and identity across cloud providers (e.g., AWS IAM, GCP IAM, Azure AD, HashiCorp Vault) (Required proficiency)
• Experience with policy-as-code and governance frameworks (e.g., OPA, Azure Policy, AWS Config, Forseti for GCP) (Preferred proficiency)
• Working knowledge of cloud cost monitoring and FinOps tooling (e.g., CloudHealth, Azure Cost Management, AWS Cost Explorer) (Required proficiency)
• Operational experience with logging and observability stacks such as ELK, Grafana, Prometheus (Preferred proficiency)
• Cloud-native observability tools: CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, GCP Operations Suite (Stackdriver) (Required proficiency)
• Experience supporting hybrid architectures and lift-and-shift cloud strategies with an eye toward future cloud-native modernization (Preferred proficiency)

Licenses and Certifications

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert - Microsoft - upon hire - Required within 6 months of start date
• DevOps Engineer Expert - Microsoft - upon hire - Preferred

To carry out its mission, CHOP is committed to supporting the health of our patients, families, workforce, and global community. As a condition of employment, professionals working onsite - at any CHOP location, for any portion of time - must be vaccinated for COVID-19. Learn more.
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SALARY RANGE:

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