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Principal DevOps Engineer I

Boston, MA 02110

Posted: 10/03/2025 Employment Type: Direct Placement Job Number: 26448458 Pay Rate: 155000-170000 USD/Year

Job Description

We are seeking a talented individual to install a DevOps culture and create an enterprise-wide cutting-edge CI/CD solution to enable fully automated on-premise and cloud-based build and deployment pipeline with IaC capabilities. As a SME within our growing DevOps team, you would lead efforts in architecting and help to implement and optimizing end-to-end CI/CD capabilities for our expanding on-prem and multi-cloud operations. The team is looking to add a member who is an expert in CI/CD, has exceptional communication skills, strong cloud skills, and is a thought leader in addressing the needs of DevOps organizations.

Duties and Responsibilities
  • As a player-coach, establish, scale, lead, and mentor Team Members towards our DevOps pursuits.
  • Provide DevOps Tools and CI/CD expertise to software development teams across the enterprise.
  • Help build a reusable standard CI/CD pipeline model with built-in quality gates, security, and cutting-edge tools and automation.
  • Drive process automation focused on eliminating manual steps in application build and deployment, integrating compliance and quality gates in the process.
  • Lead discussion and guide technical teams regarding operational, technical, and procedural best practices.
  • Evangelize a fully automated product build and release process, driving a push-button deploy attitude and vision.
  • Work with program teams to understand their product development requirements, guide in embracing DevOps principles, prescribed toolchain, and pipeline framework.
  • Be highly familiar with cloud services, having supported large scale production deployments on one or more of these platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud GCP).
  • Build, release, and configuration management of production systems.
  • System troubleshooting and problem-solving across platform and application domains.
  • Remain abreast of technology advancements for future cloud, software, and other relative implementations and capabilities.
  • Provide technical guidance in architecture and DevOps process improvements.
  • Evaluate new technology options and vendor products.
  • Ensure critical system security using best in class cloud security solutions.
  • Create and update documentation for the operational process, procedures, and environment configurations.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
  • 8+ years designing, implementing CI/CD solutions, and DevOps related practices.
  • 8+ years of cloud computing experience.
  • Version Control: Experience with version control systems such as GitHub, GitLab and code branching principles.
  • Outstanding experience with build and release process and associated tools - building CI and deployment pipelines and hands-on knowledge of applicable tools chain such as Jenkins, CircleCI, TeamCity, Azure DevOps or like build orchestration tools, Artifactory, GitHub, GitLab, SonarCube, Coverity or similar.
  • Strong experience with infrastructure as code tools (such as Terraform, Scalr, packer, CDK, Bicep)
  • Strong Experience in Configuration as code tooling in Ansible, Chef/Puppet
  • Familiarity with Orchestration and automation tooling like Rundeck
  • Strong experience in automation and one of scripting language such as Python, Ruby or similar.
  • Experience with container and container management technologies (Docker, Swarm, Nomad, Packer).
  • Experience with build management tools such as Nuget, Maven, ANT, or Gradle.
  • Solid knowledge of cloud architecture and experience with using a broad range of cloud technologies (such as AWS/Azure/GCP and their services EC2, RDS, ELB, EBD, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail).
  • Understanding of network configurations (such as SSL and PIP).
  • Experience in load balancing/reverse proxy configuration with HAProxy, NGINX or similar
  • Experience in implementing DevOps best practices with the ability to define operational processes.
  • Very familiar with organizing work using Agile principles (story backlog, Scrum, Kanban).
  • Experience with agile backlog management tools such as Atlassian Jira or similar.
  • Ability to solve problems by considering available information, prioritizing and making timely decisions.
  • Familiar with monitoring tooling such as Elastic or Splunk.
  • Operating Systems: Linux, Windows.
  • Experience maintaining parallel development environments in support of multi-project development and inter-dependencies.

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Drew Anson

Chief Delivery Officer

Drew Anson is Chief Delivery Officer at Phaxis, a Workforce Solutions Company based in New York.

In this role, Drew leads the delivery and recruiting working closely with the leadership team to define a model that is efficient at supporting the firm s current needs and is scalable for future growth.

Drew is a seasoned executive with more than 13 years of Services & Recruitment experience. In that time, he has supported numerous Fortune 100/500/1000 organizations across industries by providing global workforce solutions, namely resources and thought leadership for large-scale projects, implementations, and managed services.

Prior to joining Phaxis predecessor firm Park Hudson in 2021, Drew spent three years at engineering technology and talent solutions firm, Collabera, as Director of Sales in North Carolina. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly eight years at Insight Global, most recently as Sales Manager of the Columbus, OH office.

He holds a degree from Central Michigan University in Sales & Marketing.

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