• Location: New York NY
• Type: Contract
• Job #26873

Company Overview:
A leading financial services company specializing in lending solutions is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to enhance their enterprise DevOps and Platform Engineering strategies. The company operates across 44 states with a focus on providing safe and transparent financial solutions to millions of customers.

Job Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the enterprise DevOps and Platform Engineering strategy aligned with business and technology objectives.
• Lead technical initiatives spanning multiple projects, portfolios, and Lines of Business (LOBs).
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture to define platform standards, reusable architectures, and technology roadmaps.
• Design and implement scalable, highly available, and self-service DevOps platforms.
• Develop reusable platform capabilities that accelerate application onboarding.
• Standardize CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and release automation.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Architect cloud-native deployment patterns across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments.
• Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines using DevSecOps practices.
• Design highly available and resilient deployment architectures.
• Establish DevOps design patterns, engineering standards, and best practices.

Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience in Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
• 7+ years designing and implementing enterprise DevOps platforms.
• 5+ years leading enterprise-wide DevOps or Platform Engineering initiatives.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.
• Experience designing and implementing Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms.
• Proven experience implementing enterprise CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps practices.
• Programmatically create infrastructure in AWS, leveraging Autoscaling Groups, Security Groups, Route53, S3, and IAM.
• Experience with Git and building data infrastructure using Terraform.

Compensation:
Pay Rate: $85 – $107/hr