Principal DevOps Engineer - 90372837 Onsite in Washington DC, Wilmington DE or Philadelphia PA

Principal DevOps Engineer Location: Washington, DC (also Wilmington, DE or Philadelphia, PA). Job Summary Responsible for engineering the resilience, scalability, and security of Amtrak’s digital platforms. Leads architectural decisions around SLOs, error budgets, and infrastructure as code. Drives automation and observability practices, mentors team members, and standardizes development and deployment workflows. Responsibilities CI/CD & Release: Architect progressive delivery (canary/blue‑green/feature flags), automate rollback/fail‑forward, capture release evidence, and standardize quality gates (tests, performance, chaos testing). Platform (IaC, Cloud, Containers): Publish hardened base images and golden IaC modules with guardrails, enforce Kubernetes/RBAC, network policies, quotas, and secret standards, and design multi‑environment promotion workflows with policy checks. Observability, SLOs & Incidents: Establish SLOs/error budgets, bake runbooks into alerts, add synthetic/load tests to pipelines, lead major incident response, and deliver systemic fixes. Security & Compliance: Enforce short‑lived credentials, zero‑trust patterns, automating compliance checks and evidence collection, and partner with security for threat‑modeling on platform changes. Automation & Tooling: Create internal libraries/CLIs with telemetry and docs, measure automation ROI, and orchestrate complex workflows (e.g., Step Functions, Argo Workflows). Platform DX, Docs & Collaboration: Own a platform capability end‑to‑end (roadmap, SLAs, upgrades), drive best‑practice adoption across teams, and write ADRs and decision logs. Networking, Data Resilience & FinOps: Define/validate RPO/RTO, automate restore drills and reports, tune critical paths for latency/throughput and cost, and forecast migration impacts to deliver measurable cost/performance wins. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline. At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering with leadership in automation and infrastructure reliability. 3+ years of 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 Professional, 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 compute, networking, IAM, and monitoring. Proficiency in Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Docker, and Linux systems. Experience with pipelines as code and CI/CD using GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline, Jenkins. Experience implementing and managing CI/CD systems with security tollgates, rollback logic, and evidence collection. 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 on‑call rotations and availability for high‑severity incident response. Compensation & Benefits The salary range is $124,600.00 – $161,352.00, based on factors such as education, experience, and certifications. Amtrak may offer a geographic pay differential, incentive bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental, vision, health savings accounts, wellness programs, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) with employer match, life insurance, short‑ and long‑term disability insurance, paid time off, back‑up care, adoption assistance, surrogacy assistance, education expense reimbursement, Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility, Railroad Retirement benefits, and rail pass privileges. Requisition ID 166371 Equal Opportunity Employer Amtrak is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related conditions, such as lactation), national origin, disability, veteran status, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information, in accordance with federal, state, and local laws. #J-18808-Ljbffr Amtrak