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Principal DevOps Engineer - Remote

Amtrak
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Principal DevOps Engineer
At Amtrak, the Principal DevOps Engineer is a Principal technical leader responsible for ensuring the resilience, scalability, and security of our digital platforms. This role combines software engineering, systems engineering, and a deep operational mindset to improve reliability through automation, observability, and proactive incident response. The successful candidate will drive architectural decisions around SLOs, error budgets, infrastructure as code, and deployment strategies while mentoring engineers and standardizing practices across teams. They will collaborate cross-functionally to implement scalable solutions that align with our goals for service health, security, and development velocity. Essential Functions: CI/CD & Release Platform (IaC, Cloud, Containers) Observability, SLOs & Incidents Security & Compliance Automation & Tooling Platform DX, Docs & Collaboration Networking, Data Resilience & FinOps Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline. At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles with leadership experience in automation and infrastructure reliability. 3+ years hands-on experience in high-availability production environments with cloud-native security and observability tooling. Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent. Certifications: AWS DevOps Engineer Pro, Terraform Associate, CKA, or SRE-focused credentials. Experience with developer portals (e.g., Backstage), service mesh (e.g., Istio), and security tooling (e.g., Vault, Falco, Trivy). Knowledge of DORA metrics, reliability KPIs, and engineering effectiveness measurement frameworks. Background in regulated environments (e.g., PCI, HIPAA, FedRAMP) with experience implementing security automation at scale. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Deep expertise in AWS (or equivalent cloud platform), especially in compute, networking, IAM, and monitoring. Proficiency in Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Docker, and Linux systems. Experience with 'pipelines as code' and setting up CI/CD with Github Actions, AWS CodeBuild/CodePipelines, Jenkins automation. Strong scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and tooling. In-depth understanding of SRE practices including incident response, SLO/SLA management, chaos engineering, and capacity modeling. Familiarity with Git and GitOps patterns. Proven track record of creating shared tooling and documentation that promotes operational excellence. Work Environment: Onsite 4/5 days per week in Washington DC, Philadelphia PA or Wilmington DE. Occasional participation in on-call rotations and availability for high-severity incident response. The salary/hourly range is $124,600.00 – $161,352.00. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. Depending on an employee's assigned worksite or location, Amtrak may consider a geo-pay differential to be applied to the employee's base salary. Amtrak may offer additional incentive and pay programs to recognize and reward our employees, including a short-term incentive bonus based upon factors such as individual and company performance that is commensurate with the level of the position. In addition to your salary, Amtrak offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes health, dental, and vision plans; health savings accounts; wellness programs; flexible spending accounts; 401K retirement plan with employer match; life insurance; short and long term disability insurance; paid time off; back-up care; adoption assistance; surrogacy assistance; reimbursement of education expenses; Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility; Railroad Retirement sickness and retirement benefits; and rail pass privileges.
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