Principal DevOps Engineer

$145000 - $165000

Our client is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to join their team in Downtown Boston. This is a full-time, direct-hire role with a hybrid schedule (3 days onsite, 2 days remote). This position is highly hands-on, focused on designing, building, and scaling cloud infrastructure in an AWS-based environment, while serving as a senior technical leader and mentor across engineering teams.

The company develops a differentiated, math-driven predictive analytics platform used globally by organizations to support mission-critical business decisions. They are an established and respected organization with a collaborative, high-caliber engineering team onsite.

Required Skills & Experience

• AWS
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform & CDK)
• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• AWS Lambda
• Aurora & RDS

Desired Skills & Experience

• Kubernetes
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

What You Will Be Doing

Tech Breakdown

• 90% hands-on engineering
• 10% technical leadership and mentorship

Daily Responsibilities

• Architect and build automated cloud infrastructure
• Improve system reliability, scalability, and performance
• Lead technical direction and best practices for DevOps initiatives
• Partner cross-functionally with engineering and product teams
• Mentor engineers and influence platform strategy without direct people management

The Offer

• $150,000 Base Salary

Benefits Include:

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k) (with match, if applicable)

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.