What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal DevOps Engineer position at Sedaro?
Overview
Sedaro is hiring a Principal
DevOps Engineer to
build our culture of operational excellence. In this role, you will integrate CI/CD, security, and observability tools and automation for our Kubernetes-based multi-cloud environment, as well as rallying your teammates toward best practices.
- Team:
DevSecOps Enablement, reporting to the Director of Engineering
- Location: In person in Arlington, VA or remote
- U.S. Citizen or permanent resident status required
Who We Are
Our cloud-native simulation platform enables digital mission engineering through distributed, scalable, faster than real-time analyses across hundreds of interacting systems. We use CI/CD, Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes to achieve high availability, security, and autoscaling across cloud providers. Join us as an early employee and transform how teams collaboratively engineer the next generation of Aerospace & Defense systems.
Who You Are
- You see beauty in a well-oiled machine
- You take ownership of technical challenges and celebrate team wins
- You thrill in equipping your teammates with force-multiplying tools and practices
- You embrace experimentation and autonomy without compromising quality
- You’re energized by deep learning and sharing knowledge across disciplines
What You’ll Do
- Optimize multi-cloud production infrastructure for security, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Design and implement system observability with actionable alerting and measurable SLOs
- Drive automation through infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and continuous compliance
- Lead root cause analysis and blameless post-mortem discussions
- Search out risks using chaos engineering activities
- Coach operational and security best practices throughout the company
- Foster Lean practices and a culture of continuous improvement
Benefits
- Equity
- Unlimited PTO
- 401(k)
with 4% match
- 100% premium payment for Medical Insurance
- Parental Leave
- Flexible work schedule with core hours
- Company provided lunches 3 days a week
- Industry-leading career development opportunities
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
- 10 years of professional experience in software engineering
- Expertise with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems architecture
- Expertise with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability practices
- Track record implementing security controls and vulnerability management
- Proficiency in scripting and automation
- Experience leading incident response and root cause analysis
- Proven ability to drive organizational adoption of technical best practices
Additional
desirable experience:
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform CDKTF
- Experience with AWS and/or Azure
- Experience with IL4/5 and/or
NIST 800-171
Salary : $175,000
