Senior Principal DevOps Engineer

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Job Summary: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is dedicated to advancing pediatric care and fostering an inclusive workplace. The Principal DevOps Engineer will lead the technical strategy for cloud migration, drive the adoption of cloud-native infrastructure, and collaborate with various teams to modernize data and analytics platforms.
Responsibilities: • Lead the planning and execution of large-scale cloud infrastructure migration • Build and maintain secure, scalable, and cost-optimized cloud environments using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Bicep • Design and manage CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native data and analytics products • Identify and resolve platform gaps in observability, performance, and cost efficiency • Collaborate across infrastructure, security, and analytics teams to align on technical standards • Develop and enforce DevOps best practices and guide engineering maturity across teams • Drive automation in provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and deployment pipelines • Serve as a technical lead for incident response, root cause analysis, and production troubleshooting • Actively mentor junior DevOps and Data Engineers • Support Agile delivery through Scrum ceremonies and cross-team coordination
Qualifications:
Required: • Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Informatics, or related quantitative field • At least six (6) years Public cloud environments, including production-grade implementations • At least ten (10) years IT infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering • Demonstrated leadership in at least one major cloud migration initiative • Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell • Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, AKS, Docker) • Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) • Infrastructure automation with tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Chef • Understanding of cloud networking, identity, and security best practices • Knowledge of cost optimization strategies (e.g., Azure Reserved Instances, tagging/governance) • Experience designing and managing infrastructure across multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) • Proficiency with IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) across cloud providers using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Deployment Manager • Experience configuring cloud-native CI/CD pipelines, including tools such as: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or Google Cloud Build • Knowledge of container security and image scanning tools (e.g., Trivy, Aqua, Anchore) • Experience managing secrets and identity across cloud providers (e.g., AWS IAM, GCP IAM, Azure AD, HashiCorp Vault) • Working knowledge of cloud cost monitoring and FinOps tooling (e.g., CloudHealth, Azure Cost Management, AWS Cost Explorer) • Cloud-native observability tools: CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, GCP Operations Suite (Stackdriver) • Azure Solutions Architect Expert - Microsoft - upon hire
Preferred: • Master's Degree Computer Science, Informatics, or related quantitative field • Exposure to FinOps and enterprise cost reporting in the cloud • Familiarity with service mesh architectures (e.g., Istio, Linkerd, AWS App Mesh) • Experience with policy-as-code and governance frameworks (e.g., OPA, Azure Policy, AWS Config, Forseti for GCP) • Operational experience with logging and observability stacks such as ELK, Grafana, Prometheus • Experience supporting hybrid architectures and lift-and-shift cloud strategies with an eye toward future cloud-native modernization • DevOps Engineer Expert - Microsoft - upon hire
Company: Since its start in 1855 as the nation's first hospital devoted exclusively to caring for children, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has been the birthplace for many dramatic firsts in pediatric medicine. Founded in 1855, the company is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.