Principal DevOps Engineer

Headquartered in New York City, the company has grown since 1994 by acquiring regional IT providers.

The position

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Principal DevOps Engineer. DevOps role with a strong infrastructure-as-code focus. Most of what we run is defined in Terraform and deployed through GitHub Actions. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Your responsibilities

• Participate in on-call and incident response.
• Enforce security baselines: CIS benchmarks, image scanning, least-privilege IAM.
• Implement blue-green and canary deployments.
• Script repetitive tasks in Bash, Python or PowerShell.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps.
• Document runbooks and infrastructure standards.
• Set up monitoring and alerting in Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or CloudWatch.
• Run Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS or GKE and maintain Helm charts.

Minimum qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role.
• Familiarity with Git branching strategies and release management.
• Scripting in Bash and Python.
• Solid Linux administration and networking basics (DNS, load balancers, TLS)
• Experience running containers with Docker and Kubernetes.

Preferred

• Argo CD or Flux for GitOps.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification.

What you get

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Paid holidays.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Vision insurance.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Start: Within 30 days.

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