Principal DevOps Engineer

About Charlotte IT

From the Charlotte office, we cover clients within about a two-hour drive and support remote sites through RMM tools. Our technicians handle onsite and remote support for medical offices, accounting firms and manufacturers on fixed monthly contracts. Lunch is usually whatever is closest to the client site.

The role

We are backfilling a position after an internal move. The Infrastructure team supports about 40 developers. We need someone to make deploys faster and less scary. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US.

In your first few months you will

• Participate in on-call and incident response.
• Document runbooks and infrastructure standards.
• Set up monitoring and alerting in Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or CloudWatch.
• Create and maintain Docker base images and keep them patched.
• Enforce security baselines: CIS benchmarks, image scanning, least-privilege IAM.
• Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, including modules, remote state and drift detection.

About you

• 8-10 years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role.
• Strong Terraform or CloudFormation skills.
• Familiarity with Git branching strategies and release management.
• Understanding of observability tools and how to design useful alerts.

Pluses

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification.

Why work with us

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Paid sick leave.
• Short- and long-term disability.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Charlotte IT.