Principal DevOps Engineer

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

Role overview:

Kestrelscale is hiring for the Principal DevOps Engineer role to own our build pipelines, cloud infrastructure and deployment tooling. This role is fully remote within the US. Few meetings, lots of written updates. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

What you'll be doing:

• Document runbooks and infrastructure standards.
• Support developers with environment issues, failed builds and deployment questions.
• Implement blue-green and canary deployments.
• Enforce security baselines: CIS benchmarks, image scanning, least-privilege IAM.
• Create and maintain Docker base images and keep them patched.
• Run Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS or GKE and maintain Helm charts.
• Track and reduce cloud spend with tagging, budgets and rightsizing.

Minimum qualifications:

• 8+ years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role.
• Familiarity with Git branching strategies and release management.
• Strong Terraform or CloudFormation skills.
• Experience running containers with Docker and Kubernetes.

Nice to have:

• Exposure to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits.
• Service meshes like Istio or Linkerd.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification.

The salary range for this role is $119.00 - $137.50 per hour. This range reflects base salary only.

Compensation and benefits:

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• Paid parental leave.

Start: Flexible.

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