Principal DevOps Engineer, BlueCat

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field; master’s degree preferred
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering or DevOps, with at least 5 years managing large-scale AWS-based distributed systems
• Proven expertise in AWS ECS (Fargate and EC2) for production workloads
• Strong knowledge of AWS services: ECS, EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, Open Search, EKS, CloudWatch, ALB/NLB, Route 53, WAF, AWS Inspector, Config, GuardDuty etc
• Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure management
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred)
• Deep knowledge of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, load balancing)
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with a focus on operational rigor and automation
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and present technical concepts to leadership
• Passion for mentoring engineers and shaping team technical direction

Desirable

• The BlueCat Edge Cloud team runs and evolve a SaaS platform that supports high-scale, mission-critical networking applications for global enterprises
• We are seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to play a key role in leading the modernization and optimization of our AWS based control plane, while shaping long-term DevOps strategies and fostering operational excellence
• This is a high-impact, senior individual contributor role that combines deep hands-on expertise in AWS infrastructure and DevOps practices with mentorship, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration at its core
• Serve as a technical leader for the AWS based Edge Cloud platform, guiding its reliability, scalability, and cost optimization
• Partner with Product, Application, and Security teams to shape our cloud operations strategy and influence long-term architectural decisions
• Mentor engineers on DevOps practices, cloud infrastructure, and operational excellence
• Drive a culture of automation, observability, and operational responsibility across the team
• Design, implement, and maintain AWS infrastructure that powers BlueCat’s Edge, a SaaS product
• Manage scaling, deployment/upgrades, and operational stability of containerized services running on ECS
• Scale and operate OpenSearch clusters, ensuring performance, reliability, and cost efficiency at high scale
• Implement AWS security best practices, including IAM, VPC design, Security Groups, WAF, and compliance controls
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, ensuring high availability and uptime SLAs
• Own Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, ensuring consistent and repeatable deployments
• Design and evolve CI/CD pipelines in GitLab to support faster, more reliable delivery
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Vector, InfluxDB, Grafana) tailored for high-scale workloads
• Contribute to standardization of DevOps practices, tools, and internal best practices across the platform
• Partner with Kubernetes platform teams to support migration of selected services from ECS to Kubernetes where needed
• Influence long-term architecture with cloud-native designs (Kubernetes, Redis, Elasticsearch, Postgres, InfluxDB)
• Drive improvements in networking, service discovery, and distributed systems performance