DevOps Principal Engineer (Buenos Aires)

Job Profile: DevOps Principal Engineer – Tech Lead Role Overview The DevOps Principal Engineer – Tech Lead provides senior technical leadership across cloud engineering, automation, and DevOps practices. The role blends hands‑on engineering excellence with leadership responsibility to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient DevOps solutions across general, multi‑region environments.

The Principal Engineer collaborates with architects, product owners, QA, Security, and global engineering teams to define standards, guide solution design, and mature DevOps capabilities across the program.

Key Responsibilities
- Technology Leadership & Solution Design
- Architect and implement DevOps solutions including CI/CD, containerization, IaC, and cloud‑native designs in Azure.
- Design multi‑stage CI/CD pipelines for complex applications with automation‑first, zero‑touch principles.
- Lead Helm chart design, Kubernetes manifests, and release templates for enterprise deployments.
- Drive AKS strategy: lifecycle, security, networking, scaling, and multi‑region resiliency.
- Ensure alignment with EY reference architectures, governance, and security controls.
- Evaluate and select DevOps and automation tooling to improve reliability and delivery velocity.
- Lead modernization from classic/legacy pipelines to YAML and GitHub Actions.
- Delivery Oversight & Engineering Excellence
- Oversee backlog execution, ensuring automated build, test, and deployment processes.
- Drive consistent delivery of DevOps capabilities aligned to defined standards.
- Lead configuration management and environment alignment for multi‑region deployments.
- Lead troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis of complex deployment or automation incidents.
- Advance DevOps maturity through measurable improvements in delivery and reliability metrics.
- Governance, Standards & Best Practices
- Promote automation‑first, GitOps, secure SDLC, YAML pipelines, and shift‑left.
- Implement mandatory scanning, secrets managemen Postúlate en Kit Empleo: kitempleo.com.ar/empleo/qln4g