Principal Engineer, DevOps

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Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
In-Office
Senior level
On-Demand • Security • Software
The Role
The Principal Engineer will lead the transformation of DevOps to a self-service IDP, architecting solutions for CI/CD, observability, and AI-powered systems while mentoring engineers and driving platform adoption.
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Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

As a Principal Engineer in the Platform Engineering Team, you will be a technical leader and product owner, spearheading our transformation from traditional DevOps to a self-service Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that reduces cognitive load and accelerates delivery velocity.
 
You will:
  • Architect and scale our enterprise Internal Developer Platform (IDP), building mission-critical capabilities (CI/CD pipelines, runtime environments, observability stack, RBAC/security guardrails, and FinOps controls) and creating golden paths that reduce developer cognitive load across 500+ engineers.
  • Build AI-powered observability solutions with intelligent guidance, pattern recognition, and predictive incident response for distributed environments.
  • Lead platform reliability initiatives including automated rollbacks and zero-touch operations for standard workflows.
  • Implement enterprise networking, security policies, and cost optimization strategies with automated governance and compliance.
  • Design and scale AI platform infrastructure for SaaS products, supporting both internal operational needs and customer-facing AI/ML features and requirements.
  • Mentor engineers while driving platform adoption through evangelism, and product management principles.
What you'll need (qualifications):
  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Architecture roles, with proven leadership and product ownership experience.
  • Expert-level cloud architecture experience across GCP, AWS, and Azure, including enterprise networking and distributed systems at scale.
  • Mastery of modern platform technologies: Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), service mesh, and RBAC/IAM frameworks.
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or Node.js; experience building developer portals (Backstage) and AI/ML-powered tooling.
  • Proven track record implementing intelligent operational systems, monitoring, and distributed tracing solutions.
  • Experience with cloud governance, FinOps optimization, networking security, compliance frameworks, and deployment automation (canary deployments, feature flags).
  • Excellent communication and mentoring skills; understanding of DORA metrics and data-driven platform improvement methodologies.
 

Black Duck considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender preference, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Covered Veteran in accordance with federal law. In addition, Black Duck complies with applicable state and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment in every jurisdiction in which it maintains facilities. Black Duck also provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with a disability in accordance with applicable laws.

Top Skills

Argocd
AWS
Azure
Flux
GCP
Gitops
Go
Iam
Kubernetes
Node.js
Python
Rbac
Terraform
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The Company
HQ: Burlington, MA
275 Employees
Year Founded: 2002

What We Do

Organizations worldwide use Black Duck Software’s industry-leading products to secure and manage open source software, eliminating the pain related to security vulnerabilities, compliance and operational risk. Black Duck is headquartered in Burlington, MA, and has offices in San Jose, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Vancouver, Seoul & Beijing

Why Work With Us

We pride ourselves on cultivating an environment of collaboration, creativity, and fun! We know where you work can influence how you work, which is why our collaborative office space focuses on community and continuous learning. Our work-hard, play-hard attitude even got us named a Top Place to Work in Massachusetts by The Boston Globe!

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