Principal DevOps Architect

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Principal DevOps Architect owning AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and AI/ML platforms. Ensuring HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance for clinical research SaaS.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the cloud platform architecture and technical roadmap for infrastructure, deployment, observability, and AI platforms
  • Advise the VP of Software Architecture and engineering leadership
  • Set engineering standards, patterns, golden paths, and reference implementations for infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and AI tooling
  • Mentor engineers across teams as a hands-on technical authority without direct management responsibility
  • Drive adoption of infrastructure as code and AI tooling and prevent uncontrolled use of unvetted AI tools
  • Recommend build/buy decisions and evaluate platform-tooling vendors
  • Manage AWS infrastructure as code in Terraform, including reusable modules, remote state, drift detection, and automated plan/apply
  • Enforce policy-as-code security and cost guardrails
  • Design and deploy AWS infrastructure across development, UAT, staging, and production
  • Maintain multi-tenant database and hosting architecture, including replication and per-tenant isolation
  • Build and operate CI/CD pipelines with automated build, testing, and deployment
  • Own release management, rollback strategies, deployment gates, and customer acceptance
  • Run Docker and Kubernetes/EKS workloads and automate configuration with Ansible and Packer
  • Lead SLI/SLO/SLA programs, manage error budgets, and operate OpenTelemetry observability
  • Analyze production events, lead blameless post-incident reviews, participate in on-call rotations, and resolve incidents
  • Provision and operate AI/ML platforms using Anthropic Claude through AWS Bedrock or the Anthropic API
  • Build AI workload guardrails, observability, cost controls, usage auditing, and compliant PHI boundaries
  • Operate agentic and MCP tooling with least-privilege access and human-in-the-loop escalation
  • Establish LLMOps practices including prompt versioning, evaluation frameworks, token-cost attribution, and audit logging
  • Route inference across multiple model providers and manage protocols such as MCP
  • Operate and evidence SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA controls and support external audits
  • Manage secrets, supply-chain security, vulnerability remediation, SBOMs, cloud costs, tagging, budgets, and right-sizing
  • Coordinate with product, development, support, operations, and QA across a distributed, multi-time-zone team

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or an equivalent combination of technical education and work experience
  • 10+ years in SRE/DevOps/platform engineering, including senior individual-contributor or architect-level experience
  • Experience delivering CI/CD, REST API deployment, containerization, IaaS/PaaS, data pipelines, and application observability
  • Proven technical authority across teams and ability to influence through expertise and example rather than direct management
  • Experience driving adoption of infrastructure as code, a CI/CD overhaul, or an AI/ML platform across multiple teams
  • Hands-on Terraform experience, including reusable modules, remote state, and CI/CD change management
  • Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for large-scale AWS applications using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, or AWS-native tools
  • Experience running Docker and Kubernetes containerized workloads
  • Experience with cloud-native monitoring, troubleshooting, and OpenTelemetry
  • Linux system administration, Unix scripting, and automation
  • Experience working in HIPAA, HITECH, HITRUST, PHI, PII, or PCI DSS environments
  • 2+ years in PHP, MySQL, and SQL is a plus
  • AI/ML or GenAI production platform experience is a plus
  • LLMOps, MCP services, AI security/governance, policy-as-code, secrets management, supply-chain security, FinOps, clinical research, or healthcare technology experience is a plus
  • Successful candidates must complete and pass reference and background checks
  • Desired salary must be indicated for the application to be considered
  • Must verify identity and eligibility to work in compliance with federal law

Benefits:

  • Health insurance
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • 10 paid Holidays
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Work Anniversary Bonus
  • Participation in the Employee of the Quarter Program
  • Monthly $100 Connectivity Stipend Reimbursement
  • 401(k) matching: 100% of the first 3% invested and 50% of the next 2%
  • Remote and telecommuting work arrangement