Principal DevOps Engineer Job at Revel IT (Columbus)

Principal DevOps Engineer

Revel IT

Location:
United States , Columbus

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

The Principal DevOps Engineer owns the clarity, reliability, security, and repeatability of how our systems are built, deployed, and operated. This role designs and maintains automated, scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure across production, development, and test environments. This is a deeply hands-on role responsible for executing and improving deployments, observability, and core operational practices to reduce risk caused by opaque processes, undocumented knowledge, and single points of failure.

Job Responsibility:

Own and execute deployment processes end-to-end, ensuring they are secure, repeatable, transparent, and well documented with clear failure signals and automated rollback strategies
Design, build, and maintain automated, scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure across production, development, and test environments
Build, operate, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines with clear failure signals, recovery paths, and rollback strategies
Own application-level networking and infrastructure concerns, including network configuration, access controls, and connectivity required to support development and production environments
Own all infrastructure and networking concerns, including the configuration and troubleshooting of site-to-site VPNs, firewall rules, and secure connectivity required for county-level integrations and remote access
Own day-to-day DevOps operations, including infrastructure health, monitoring, logging, patching, security posture, and maintenance, ensuring systems are observable and failures are diagnosable through strong metrics, logging, root-cause visibility, and effective incident response
Perform regular access analysis across all systems, managing secrets, credentials, and IAM roles to ensure strict adherence to security best practices
Proactively support compliance requirements (such as SOC 2) by maintaining auditable operational practices and generating technical evidence/reports for software and security audits
Enforce security posture through proactive patching, encryption, and vulnerability management across web servers, load balancers, and data stores
Partner with software engineers during deployments and operational work to build shared understanding and enable safe, independent troubleshooting
Deploy, manage, and scale web and application servers, load balancers, queues, and caches through automated, repeatable workflows
Identify, prioritize, and deliver improvements that reduce operational risk, remove bottlenecks, improve efficiency, and increase delivery confidence
Document systems and processes with a focus on explaining both how they work and why
Take proactive ownership of workload while ensuring strong coordination and transparency across the team
Perform other job-related duties as assigned to support departmental goals and continuous improvement initiatives

Requirements:

6-10 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, infrastructure, or platform engineering supporting production systems
Advanced programming experience (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.)
Proficiency with Linux/Unix administration, scripting, and programming (bash, Python, Ruby, etc.)
Deep hands-on expertise with core DevOps technologies such as Docker, Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation
Strong experience building and improving CI/CD workflows for provisioning, deployment, and scaling
Hands-on experience managing application-level networking, VPN configurations, load balancers, and connectivity required for secure, distributed environments
Experience implementing test automation and use of AI-assisted tooling to improve deployment quality, reliability, and operational efficiency
Strong troubleshooting and monitoring skills for Linux operating systems
Hands-on experience implementing monitoring and log aggregation platforms (ELK, Graylog, Graphite, Prometheus, etc.)
Experience deploying and managing web/ application servers, load balancers, queues, and caches
proven ability to scale and build resiliency into web architectures
Proficiency with source control systems and IaC to create scriptable, repeatable processes
Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Nice to have:

AWS experience (EC2, S3, Route 53, VPC, IAM, EKS)
Database administration experience
Experience supporting or deploying 12-Factor applications

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 21, 2026

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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